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Indie-Visible Publishing Pack Giveaway – Missing the Muse

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February 5, 2015. February 5, 2015. Indie-Visible Publishing Pack Giveaway. Calling All Indie Authors! Indie-Visible is an organization dedicated to helping independent authors navigate their way through the world of self-publishing. They currently have a giveaway worth $3,551. All you have to do is enter the contest by clicking here. One lucky winner will receive:. An exclusive stock photo from Regina Wamba. Full structural, line, and copy edit from Plot Ninja. Website design from Starling Magic. You ar...

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Editing | Crystal Rae Bryant

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Who I work with:. I work with writers who write things I love to read. That means YA of all kinds and adult fantasy and science fiction. I work with writers with whom I “click”. This means that I can trust them to talk to me about their book, and that we can engage in discussion about the content and structure of the book. I work with writers who are excited about their craft and are constantly honing it. My rates are linked at the top of the page along with the levels of editing I offer.

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Today starts my Tech Time series over at Indie-Visible | Crystal Rae Bryant

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Today starts my Tech Time series over at Indie-Visible. I’m starting a weekly series of posts over at Indie-Visible dealing with tech issues that writers run into, from different tools for your writing and business to setting up your website. The first post is on managing multiple email addresses: Tech Time: The Multiple Email Address Conundrum. Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window).

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Blackout Kindle Poetry | Crystal Rae Bryant

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I kind of have a nerd obsession/crush on Austin Kleon. And had a hankering to do some blackout poetry after scrolling through the web reading his stuff most of today. The problem is, when you’re slow traveling and living minimalist, you don’t have a lot of printed material around to play with. I do, however, have a bazillion ebooks, and a handy drawing on pictures app. This is from Max Gladstone’s (another nerd crush of mine). At the last page I was reading. Click to share on Google (Opens in new window).

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Books | Crystal Rae Bryant

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Inception by Teal Haviland. Book One of the Reaping Chronicles. The world is in danger. Mankind is sinking deeper into darkness it cannot understand. Demons are easily capturing souls as they lead men and women down dangerous paths from which there is no return, while Javan, one of the Fallen, seeks an ancient book and the power it promises. If he succeeds, humans and the world as they know it will be destroyed. There is someone who is capable of stopping Javan . . . If she discovers him in time. Caught ...

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Blackout | Crystal Rae Bryant

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I kind of have a nerd obsession/crush on Austin Kleon, and had a hankering to do some blackout poetry after scrolling through the web reading his stuff most of today. The problem is, when you’re slow traveling and living minimalist, you don’t have a lot of printed material around to play with. I do, however, have a bazillion ebooks, and a … Read More.

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The Science Behind “Knowing” the Right Direction For Your Story | Crystal Rae Bryant

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The Science Behind “Knowing” the Right Direction For Your Story. It’s spooky to admit that the conscious portion of our brain isn’t aware of what’s happening elsewhere in our noggins, but some. Experiments back this up. This is why, when the writing is going well, it feels more like reading or discovery than it does writing or creation. It feels as though the story could go no other way than the way we’re writing it. Like it existed before us. Click to share on Google (Opens in new window).

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Keeping up to date on industry news | Crystal Rae Bryant

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Keeping up to date on industry news. Many authors I know feel like it’s too hard to keep up-to-date on what is going on in the industry. For a long time, I found this hard to understand. I never had to go looking for industry information, I let it come to me. It’s only in the past year that I realized that was the key: I let it come to me. What doesn’t work for me. More on that in just a moment.). What kind of works for me. I can get easily overwhelmed by too much information, so Twitter and I have a cau...

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Rates | Crystal Rae Bryant

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I find that the Bay Area Editors’ Forum. Has the best definition of developmental editing. Basically, I’ll be looking at the big picture. Does the story flow smoothly? Do I believe in the characters motivations? Do they feel real to me? Does it all make sense? Are there things that made me stop, things that took me out of the story? Examples of suggestions I might make in a developmental edit:. Addition or removal of characters. Expansion or tightening of passages. Starting at $2 a page. I offer a free s...

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Links | Crystal Rae Bryant

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Good info on the business of publishing (traditional and self). Keep an eye out for his posts on intellectual property and contract law. Curiosity by Alastair Reid. Daffodils by William Wordsworth. Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti. Holy Sonnet XIV by John Donne. Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot. Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. She walks in beauty by Lord Byron. The Flea by John Donne. The Lady of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tennyson. The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth. Orange by Neil Gaiman.