Just spent multiple happy hours working on a friend’s book proposal. Doing work for friends can be tricky, mostly because if you feel nothing for the material or the approach, you know you can’t do it justice as an editor/consultant. And how can you say, “Well, sorry, but what you’ve been working on and agonizing [...]

That has to be the best email subject line I’ve seen in ages. Sounds almost like a Zen koan, doesn’t it?
The email came from writer and friend Elizabeth Clarke. She went on to explain, “I got a puppy…” and it seems the lively little guy is getting in the way of her good intentions to [...]

I had a great conversation with a book design expert last week. Nick Zelinger has designed covers and interiors for many, many books over the last 20 years, most of them for authors who self-publish. I asked him for some tips about how my clients and I could prepare our manuscript files to prevent hang-ups [...]