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Editing Services – Diane Tibert
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Writer – editor – publisher. Nova Scotia Author Pages. NS Independent Book Stores. Looking for an editor? You’ve come to the right place. Diane Tibert is now accepting new clients for 2016. Diane edits Canadian and American English, and a combination of both. Prospective clients may send 300 words of their manuscript for me to edit, so they can get an idea of how I work. Her assistance was taken for granite. And consistency. Manuscripts are read twice. Minimum: $60.00 per project. 150 a page (formatted t...
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Author Interviews – Diane Tibert
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Writer – editor – publisher. Nova Scotia Author Pages. NS Independent Book Stores. Below are the list of authors interviewed for this blog and the date they appeared. They are listed in alphabetical order according to surname. Simply click the link to read the post. Austin: October 1: June J. Austin author of. Best: October 22: Laura Best author of. Flying with a Broken Wing. Best: August 17: Laura Best author of. Boudreau: November 2: Chantal Boudreau, author of Casualties of War. Under the Same Sky.
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Home – Diane Tibert
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Writer – editor – publisher. Nova Scotia Author Pages. NS Independent Book Stores. Editing a western romance novel Dust, Unsettle 25. July 16, 2016. July 15, 2016. This is a series of posts appearing each Saturday morning, sharing the story and the editing of. A western romance written in the 1980s by the teenage version of myself. To learn more about this exercise, check out the original post. This story takes place in the late 1980s. I’ve decided to keep it there instead of updating it to 2016. Continu...
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Spelling – Diane Tibert
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Writer – editor – publisher. Nova Scotia Author Pages. NS Independent Book Stores. The comparison chart below lists words and their spellings according to country. To keep things simple, I’ve chosen only two countries: mine Canada and our neighbours south of the border United States. Though Canadian words were originally influenced by England, our biggest influence now is the United States. To read more about why I created this list, visit the blog post Which language do you write? Or from an excess of s...
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Self-publishing Consultant – Diane Tibert
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Writer – editor – publisher. Nova Scotia Author Pages. NS Independent Book Stores. September 10, 2013. In My Indie Publishing Experience. I was waiting for someone else to say my stories were good enough for others to read. Under the pen name Candy McMudd. Getting my first book published inspired me to do another, and since then I have published two full-length adult novels and four short stories for myself and one book by another author. This fall I’m releasing a collection of short stories and two ...
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Self-publishing Facts – Diane Tibert
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Writer – editor – publisher. Nova Scotia Author Pages. NS Independent Book Stores. This may include interior design, overall layout, illustrations, cover design and digital file. If you choose to publish/print your book through another company, there’s a high possibility that you’ll need to pay for some or all of these services a second time. A company that does the self-publishing for you is essentially a middle man who controls certain aspects and rights to your book that may not be fully realised unti...
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Self-publishing Resources – Diane Tibert
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Writer – editor – publisher. Nova Scotia Author Pages. NS Independent Book Stores. This page will contain links to the most helpful posts on this blog for self-published authors. It will take time to gather them all, but here’s a start. If you’re on the self-publishing journey, you might also be interested in Publishing 101: Draft to Book in 30 Days. Defining the Publishing Industry. Revised: Five Types of Book Publishers. Things to Think About. Who are you writing for? Should you use a pen name? I am a ...
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Publishing 101 – Diane Tibert
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Writer – editor – publisher. Nova Scotia Author Pages. NS Independent Book Stores. Publishing 101: From Draft to Book in 30 Days. Read about Publishing 101. Aging Process and Evaluation. How would you evaluate your first draft, and how long should it sit before you begin editing? Editing a manuscript for strong verbs. Targeting Passive Text and Redundant Words. Write more active sentences by reducing the number passive text, and target those problem words. Spell and Grammar Check. Read it One More Time.
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Create, Organise, Rearrange with MS Word – Diane Tibert
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Writer – editor – publisher. Nova Scotia Author Pages. NS Independent Book Stores. Create, Organise, Rearrange with MS Word. July 31, 2015. July 31, 2015. In Lessons in Writing. G Kaye wrote a post not long ago regarding Scrivener, the software that is meant to make our writing life easier. Like me, however, many writers have found the program’s large learning curve frustrating and time-consuming. Being a visual person with blob properties, I have to see either the big picture or a large section of it to...