Sea Leaf Book Editing

12/01/2025

Authors Publish is a resource for many writerly needs, including letting you know who’s accepting submissions. And they always have great advice.

This LitMag is accepting poetry & creative nonfiction submissions: https://authorspublish.com/months-to-years-now-seeking-submissions/ ✨

11/28/2025

Time to write may be elusive during the busy holidays. But that means more time to reflect on your characters (and your plot). Do jot down your thoughts so you can return to them when you finally sit to write.

In this interview, bestselling author Ana Huang discusses mulling over the characters in the writing process of her new contemporary romance, The Defender.

11/27/2025

I checked 10. How about you?

11/26/2025

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest —
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest —
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

The son and grandson of prominent Scottish engineers, Louis was expected to follow in their footsteps. He dutifully attended engineering school, and excelled there, but upon graduation he disappointed his parents by announcing that he intended to become a writer rather than a civil engineer. Later he would disappoint them again by marrying F***y Van de Grift Osbourne, a pistol-packing American divorcee who was 12 years his senior.

But following his heart led him ultimately to happiness and success. When he died at age 44 of a cerebral hemorrhage, he was not at a desk in Scotland doing a job he hated, but rather at his home in the South Pacific, happily married and doing a job he loved, his novels Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde having won him enduring fame.

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, one hundred seventy-five years ago today.

11/21/2025

And never the twain shall meet!

11/20/2025

Pretty as a picture, sweet as pie.... Don't use cliches when you can create inventive images like this!

11/18/2025

Really, this *is* organization. They didn't keep using the same file name for every draft, right?

11/17/2025

OK, the British can transpose the "R" and "E" in "center," but this is going too far.

11/16/2025

Our local authors are something special! Visit this book sale, meet some terrific authors, and enjoy the new library today.

📚✨ CFBF: Cover to Cover Book Sale @ Main Library! ✨📚
Discover your next favorite read and meet the talented local authors behind it! Writers from New Hanover, Pender, and Brunswick counties will be on site with books to browse, buy, and get signed.

🛍️ Feeling festive? Swing by the self-serve gift-wrapping station (while supplies last) to make your literary finds ready to gift—or keep!

📅 Sunday, Nov. 16 | 2–5 PM
📍 Main Library
More info at CapeFearBookFestival.org

11/14/2025

Throw some sticks this weekend! Both physical and literary sticks are welcome.