Being a retailer is challenging when the psychology of the market is making people think twice about opening their purses. How can we send our customers a message of encouragement? How can we get them to sit a spell, and spend their precious dollars in our stores? In large part it has to do with [...]
The verbs to lie and to lay have very similar conjugations, thus causing many problems for even the best writers. The best way to remember how to use these two verbs is by remembering the following chart. Definition Present Past Past Participle to recline lie lay has/have/had lain to put or place lay laid has/have/had [...]
More than 95 per cent of what’s published here is American so that’s what people buy, and even the foreign lit that does get translated and published doesn’t get a lot of attention. As a new bookstore owner trying to make his way in the world of chains and Amazon, I see that vacuum as [...]
I would like to thank the Hanover Writers Club for sponsoring the Hanover Book Festival this past Saturday. And I would like to thank the Hanover Book Festival for inviting me to speak about working with an editor. The workshop was filled with writers who knew little about what editors do, and we went into [...]
For this very reason, book lovers should support their local independent bookstores. By doing so, they are helping to preserve their local culture. “I am keen to preserve what is good in life, and that is often at odds with what is most profitable in life. Leaving aside the price arguments about supermarkets, bookshops have, [...]
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Parenthesis are used to indicate that this particular material is less important. The sentence must be a complete thought without the material inside the parenthesis because the parenthetical information is not necessary to the meaning of the sentence. Some examples on when to include parenthesis are explaining, translating, commenting, supplementing, listing, marking telephone area codes [...]
I spoke at a writers’ retreat in February about the importance of first pages. In addition, I offered a special. For $25, I would critique the first 1,000 words of a manuscript and provide the author with a 10-minute consultation. This special was such a success that I have decided to offer the same special [...]
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Mark Peters, in the Writer’s Digest, compares finding an editor to finding a love through online dating: “Anyone who has entered the online dating world and worked as a freelance writer may have noticed some spooky similarities between the two: the suspiciously vague ads, the long response waits, the frequent miscommunication, the soul-crushing self-doubt and—when [...]
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