Talent + Persistence + Luck = Success
I think the title speaks for itself: success in publishing comes from talent, persistence, and luck. It’s important to note you can only control the first two of these things – but sometimes we get …
LAUNCHED: Beta Frank Editing!
It’s official: I have launched my (very affordable) editing services! (Jeez… finally. This has only been in the works for months.) Please welcome Beta Frank Editing: where the feedback is blunt, and your writing gets better! Well, that’s …
Meep Meep! (On Using a Stop Word)
The other day, my very puzzled beta reader asked me, “What’s a meep?” I laughed, and then had to apologize: my poor beta reader had scoured the internet for a “meep” before coming to me to …
Awesome Adverbs!
You don’t hear that phrase every day, do you? Adverbs are some of the words most-hated by the writing community, and rightfully so, with blasphemous creatures like approximately and suddenly running rampant through our proverbial streets. But at the …