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I wrote an article that has been posted on book-editing.com about entering contests to win money, increase exposure, win other prizes such as actual publishing contracts, and more!

Take a look here:

https://www.book-editing.com/book-awards-contests/

I've been an editor for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for several years and know how powerful winning such a contest can be to stimulate sales and…

https://www.book-editing.com/how-to-self-publish-a-book/

Follow this link to the website I belong to as a consulting editor. The site posts blog articles about a variety of topics related to writing, publishing, and marketing. The link above is a blog about specific steps to take when you decide to self-publish. Good luck and success to you!

Beth

Hi all,

If you have written a spiritual book and are considering publishing it on your own, take a look at this wonderful article I found about some of the opportunities for publication:

https://www.book-editing.com/religion-christian-spiritual-self-publishing/

And, if you're looking for an editor to help you polish your manuscript, give me a holler at bethbruno99@gmail.com or go…

If you are looking for an editor, I hope you will consider contacting me for a free sample. I collaborate with authors of fiction or nonfiction to help them prepare their manuscripts for publication. I've been working with writers for 20 years and have edited more than 400 book manuscripts over the years. And if it hadn't been for my membership in CAPA, dating back more than 20 years, I never would have discovered the literary business and changed careers to be a part of it! Looking forward…

I've been a book editor for 20 years now, and lots of my author clients have been published in the mainstream and independently. One of them, William Craig, wrote a memoir that has received acclaim on the cover of Publisher's Weekly, September 3rd edition. The title is Inventing Oneself, about a man whose immigrant father worked as a chauffeur when he came to the US, and whose son worked his way up in the banking industry in Philadelphia and Boston. At the end of his career he formed a…

The first in the series of Kate Killoy mysteries.

Kate Killoy & her fiancé Harry Foyle must face… …

Social media is pervasive and it's everywhere. That's a great thing for authors. Through social media, today is one of the best times in the history of the world to be an author. There are more readers than ever and we now have the opportunity to easily connect with people, something which was nonexistent just five years ago. Social media can enrich our lives, and help us realize profitability while being true to our unique talents, forging our own path, and doing what is…

Are you an early bird writer? Find your kindred spirits on Twitter at the #5amwritersclub. The group was started by one of my most prolific author clients, Khris Chess, who writes Young Adult (YA) novels. The #5amwritersclub has come into its own this week as a top trend on Twitter. I don't quite make it that early, but I'm up and at 'em at 6am, busy editing, editing, editing!

Hi everyone! I just rejoined CAPA after a one-year absence. I live in Exeter, New Hampshire now, after more than 30 years in Connecticut and more than 20 years as a member of CAPA. I couldn't stay away.

In addition to being part of lots of CAPA committees over the years, I wrote hundreds of op-ed pieces, one nonfiction book called Wild Tulips, and hundreds more features articles for a variety of websites. Professionally, I shifted from being a school psychologist to…

Hi everyone! I just rejoined CAPA after a one-year absence. I live in Exeter, New Hampshire now, after more than 30 years in Connecticut and more than 20 years as a member of CAPA. I couldn't stay away.

In addition to being part of lots of CAPA committees over the years, I wrote hundreds of op-ed pieces, one nonfiction book called Wild Tulips, and hundreds more features articles for a variety of websites. Professionally, I shifted from being a school psychologist to…

I FUMED ACROSS half of Kansas’s boring terrain, fields upon fields of low, nondescript greenery. The upside? I had lots of time to think. That I needed, because I’d picked a bold and possibly dangerous solution to a problem that begged a solution. I’m on my way to Susank to take my sister away from her abusive husband.

Twelve hundred eighty seven miles from my home in Hershey; twelve hundred eighty seven angry miles. My wife said I shouldn’t make the trip. She tried to make…

A novel that is properly copyedited is a pleasure to read. Unfortunately, there are many writers these days that do not want to take the time or spend the money to have their manuscript copyedited or proofread. This is evident in many of the self-published books I see on Amazon. When I was growing up, reading was a way for me to learn about spelling, grammar, punctuation, people, places, and careers. I trusted books. I am a self-employed copy editor and proofreader and although it’s hard to…

Hi blog readers,

I understand that there are well over four hundred members and friends of CAPA who have subscribed to this well run blog.

To this date I have published ninety-five (95) short stories on a blog that is under my name. The stories are short and meant to be so that people can leave their daily grind for a couple of minutes or five and get away, perhaps while at their work stations (if permitted).

I have yet to hear from a single CAPA/ning reader, either to…

WE WANTED TO go north for our honeymoon. Ski, snowboard, lounge in the lodge at a small, intimate table near the big fireplace and sip pińa coladas, sex – lots of it – the whole magilla.

I-91 north, a straight shot most of the way to Vermont’s Mt. Snow, the road silky smooth and not congested now that we’d passed through the sprawl of Springfield. Multiple lanes spread out in front of us while the black ribbon of highway made soft the hum of our tires.

I tried a few bars of…

“HOW ABOUT A hug?” he says.

“Okay,” she replies. It comes out as a sigh. She’s mad at him. She doesn’t want to, but that engaging quirk of his lip takes some of the steam out of her. She relaxes a little. They come together. The hug is silent, warm, and tingly and costs them nothing. It brings a smile to both peoples lips.

“We should do this more often,” she says.

“It does have a leavening effect on our relationship, doesn’t it?”

“Yes. I forgot what I was mad at…

JULY 1ST. WE drive north because we always drive south at the beginning of summer and I don’t want to do what we always do. My wife wants the old, comfortable way, but I get my back up and decide she could do something I want this year. She can’t reason with me.

That’s her big forte, reason. She finally gives in. This is why.

My headaches had been coming with increased frequency. That started a year ago. Eventually I went to my lady GP and she referred me to a specialist. I…

BACK IN ’38, same year as I was born, Pa bought a Farmall tractor, brand new. He got a good price from Jed Wright, who owned the West Torrington Sales Company. He told Pa the company be changing the design and likely going to name them with letters instead of numbers. Pa didn’t care about that. He’d heard from Hezekiah Brown who had a big farm up in Goshen that the F-14 tractor was a tip-top fine machine…good enough for Pa.

We jawed about it days when we worked the fields together…

TODAY’S MY BIRTHDAY and I’m twelve. Mama promised me I could climb the hill early if I wanted and I wanted so I did, like in my dream. The most amazing thing just happened.

I’ve got a secret. I want to shout it to the world, but inside I know I shouldn’t tell, not even Mom, ‘specially not Mom. I don’t know why, well, maybe I do. But I got to tell somebody, so I’ll tell you ‘cause you’re my best friend, but you got to keep it a secret, cross your heart, okay? C’mon, cross your…

THIS STORY IS some about my family and my life, the trouble I got into and choices I will shortly make that will change my life, one way or another. I’m finally and truly in love. I see no way free of this dangerous course I follow. I am at a crossroads.

Do I tell the truth, there to reap the reward or suffer the consequences, or do I hide my past and hope he never finds out? I write this to paper first. Having written it, I will examine it like I’d had a conversation with a friend…

It is best to keep in mind that this experiment in storytelling requires the reader to accept the premise of a disability as tailored throughout. It might require a paradigm shift, i.e., instant suspension of disbelief at the get-go. Above all, keep in mind that it’s fiction. Now you are as prepared as you’re going to be.

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"I LOOKED AT Sally and what did I see?

I saw Sally, looking at…