Many people go into freelance work with wide-eyed optimism. Freelancing. Emphasis on the free. They imagine the freedom of setting their own hours, grabbing the laptop and jaunting off to work in a trendy coffee shop, being their own boss, enjoying more leisure time,...
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Reba is one of the best editors I have worked with. Her work is thorough, reliable and efficient. She is always a pleasure to work with. I would recommend her to even the pickiest of authors.
– Lora Gallagher, Production Manager Outskirts Press
WHY WRITERS HIRE EDITORS
by Reba | August 15, 2011 | Editing | 0 Comments
It’s clear why writers should use an editor if they’re planning to self-publish a book. If they don’t have their manuscripts edited, their work will be published as is—typos and all. Writers who plan to self-publish can either hire an independent editor, purchase the...
The Realities Of Freelancing: Is It The “Free” Or The “Lance”?
by Reba | July 28, 2011 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Many people go into freelance work with wide-eyed optimism. Freelancing. Emphasis on the free. They imagine the freedom of setting their own hours, grabbing the laptop and jaunting off to work in a trendy coffee shop, being their own boss, enjoying more leisure time,...
MAKING TIME TO WRITE WHEN YOU HAVE KIDS
by Reba | September 18, 2011 | The Writing Life | 2 Comments
Making time to write is hard when you're a stay-home parent. My own kids are teenagers—busy, busy teenagers with jobs and social lives and cell phones and their own agendas. If I wanted to work on a novel, they’d probably be thrilled to have me out of their hair. But...
Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation
by Reba | November 11, 2011 | Punctuation | 2 Comments
Thanks to Eric K. Auld... 1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. 2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave. 3. A question mark walks into a bar? 4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a...
Dialogue Tags
by Reba | July 21, 2011 | Dialogue | 2 Comments
One of the joys of reading short stories or novels is being transported into a different life, a different country, a different perspective. But when an author inadvertently makes his or her presence suddenly known, it’s jolting for the reader to be jerked back into...
COMMA SPLICING AND RUN-ON SENTENCES
by Reba | August 16, 2011 | Punctuation | 0 Comments
One of the most common errors I see in manuscripts is comma splicing (also called run-on sentences)—a grammatical no-no. Comma splicing is the use of a comma to join two independent, complete sentences that can stand on their own. (I wrote a sentence, I used a comma...
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