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  • Sian - as someone who grew up in a home full of addiction and all the dysfunction that...mpanies it, I get that instinctive urge to label your feelings as "whiny brat" mode, but I think your points are...
  • Hi Deborah - regarding your post The Gender Diaries - Perhaps telling about your mood first - about being SO pregnant - then fall into the 6 am? Another area you ask...
  • I'm working on a memoir and every time I thought of putting together an outline, I wan...but I savor every minute of it. But I'm all about trying to break our cultural mode of "gotta hurry up." I haven'...
  • Regina, you made some good points! As an editor, I have a set fee for editing, and a lower fee for editing help during revisions. When I edit for authors who self publ...
  • Great article...but sad and maddening too! I'm a newbie, still unpublished and yet keeping track as much as I can of the changes going on in publishing and sometimes i...
  • Thanks so much for sharing, Caitlyn (and ps- nice name). I actually did the exact same thing during a massive novel revision this year -- I found an old screenwriting...
  • As a longtime book designer (Black Sparrow Press), editor, and small publisher (Bandan...a good idea. I'd like to see further parceling out of your services. For some modernist works, the typography an...
  • This is always so terrible to hear about. I've only come across a few bullies like the ones you've faced, and blocked/reported every one of them to the respective foru...
  • Concerning the quality of any publication, one of my recent blog posts was about a paperback with a fatal error in it: a series of duplicated pages replacing the pages...
  • Romi Grossberg commented on her article Are you a Perfectionist?
    Loved your comment Laurie, you have some gems in there - "there is a certain anxiety connected to letting go of perfection, but it is far less than the anxiety of perf...