Editorial Inspirations

10/04/2025

Copywriters Vary, Proofreaders Catch, Book Reviews Rank -

I have come up with some tips to help you become familiar with the role of a copywriter and move the writing process along smoothly. Here is the second tip.  

10/03/2025

So excited to see the results of last month's interview!

10/03/2025

Who’s your favorite horror writer? Which story or poem always sends chills up your spine?

10/02/2025

Writing Prompt
A princess wants to slay a dragon. How does she go about learning how to do this?

10/01/2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
I highly recommend this book
By Rebbiej

A Princess In Disguise is a delightful, quick read. Princess Margaret cannot tolerate the idea of an arranged marriage, so she runs away. Her adventure holds much more than she could ever imagine. Believing she is searching for her mother, she finds herself, and the realization of life for those around her. This book is appropriate for young adults. I highly recommend this book.

On the night of her sixteenth birthday and before her father has the chance to force her to marry a complete stranger, Princess Margaret sneaks away from the riches and safety of the palace. Torn between her fate and freedom, Princess Margaret desperately goes looking for her mother as the answer...

09/30/2025

My son has been teaching me about soccer, and I am noticing that there are similarities between it and the writing process.

Soccer is a team sport, and while some players may gain more notoriety than others, all of the members are needed for the team to succeed. There is a team behind the author, and although the author is the team member who gains a majority of the fame, the success of the author depends on the abilities of the team.

And like many other sports, soccer is physically demanding and a lot of training is involved. Writing a successful book is time demanding, and a lot of practice writing and rough drafts eventually lead to a well-written final product.

Soccer also consists of many rules to play the game correctly. Understanding the rules allows all of those involved to know what is supposed to happen and to know who wins! Publishing a book includes deadlines and contracts — the nitty gritty that takes away from the art. But having the deadlines and contracts helps the author to know how successful the final product is.

Both the winning team of the soccer game and the book team celebrate when they win. The soccer team wins and celebrates when they have the most number of goals at the end of a specific time, and the author’s team celebrates when they meet or exceed their publishing goals.

Beautifully, soccer and the writing process are independent in play books yet dependent on players! Go Teams!

09/29/2025

Writing Prompt of the Month
You’re at the movie theater watching a movie, and it’s at the climax of the big blockbuster hit. Someone is talking on a cell phone. When you go to confront the person, you find that it is your boss. What do you say?

09/29/2025

The Insider’s Guide to Expert Editing is chock-full of insights from experts in the field, with a focus on five manuscript service categories that every editor should consider for their arsenal:

Ghostwriting
Manuscript critiquing
Developmental editing
Copyediting
Proofreading

While there are many ways to work with words, no one person knows how to do it all. This second edition of April Michelle Davis’s is chock-full of insights from experts in the field, with a focus on five manuscript service categories that every editor should consider for their arsenal: A d...

09/27/2025

Verbs denoting action often require objects to complete the thought and the meaning. These verbs are called transitive verbs. The objects, like the subjects of the verbs, are usually nouns and pronouns. The direct object is the noun the verb is acting upon, and the indirect object is the noun that is being affected by the direct object.

To find the direct object, first find the subject and the verb. Use these in a question ending with whom or what.

Example: The sales associate sold her a movie.

The subject of this sentence is associate, and the verb is sold.
Therefore, the question to ask is: The sales associate sold what?

Direct Object: movie

Indirect Object: her

09/26/2025

“The book is warm. The book is handy. The book is handsome to the eye. The book occupies the shelf of the owner and is a reflection of him or her or, actually, me. The book is always there, to be reached for, to be thumbed and, too often I admit, to wonder about: Why did I buy this? My bookcase is full of mysteries. . . . I asked a bookseller in New York to recommend a brilliant but unheralded book, and he went through his shelves and picked out several, none of which I had ever heard of. Her Privates We was one of them. The Hemingway blurb sold me. No digital anything can do that.”

—Columnist Richard Cohen in the Washington Post

09/25/2025

September 24 – National Punctuation Day. “A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever mysterious ellipsis.”

09/24/2025

We are living in disruptive times. In fact 76% of wholesaler-distributors surveyed believe we are living in an environment we could call the “age of disruption.” Leaders throughout the industry are challenged by the constant pressures coming at them from all directions. These pressures could come from marketplace competitors or be the result of new government regulations, shifting demographics, the accelerating pace of technology, and others. Navigating these big shifts to create a sustainable and relevant business has become the new mandate for every leader and every employee in distribution.

INNOVATE! How Successful Distributors Lead Change in Disruptive Times