What exactly is NaNoWriMo? During November many people have only one thing on their mind – winning NaNoWriMo and ending the month having written a novel. Becoming a fully fledged novelist. The name is short for National Novel Writing Month but it really should be International Novel Writing Month. It’s huge. Thousands of…
This weekend was the first John O’Groats book festival. I’ve looked forward to this for a while and I’m happy to say that it was an enjoyable event that gave me a lot to think about. Spread over two days, Friday kicked off the festival with a map launch and an evening meeting the authors,…
As an editor I’m trained to edit. I can take an author’s book and polish it. I can address the grammar, spelling and flow along with all the other editory type things that us editors do. I can tell an author what’s working and what isn’t and I can take a jargon filled piece of…