Since my humble beginnings as a proofreader, my business has evolved every year and now includes a full suite of editing services plus book coaching. These changes were informed largely by my clients, whose needs were diverse on the surface, but they all boiled down to one core desire: the courage to publish. At first, as a proofreader, I trumpeted the elimination of manuscript errors as a veh[...]
Are you writing a book and considering using a standard style guide? Maybe you are deliberating between using the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) and the Associated Press Stylebook (AP), but you don’t know which one is better suited to your writing. Truly, both of these are awesome style guides! They are different in some respects, and today we are going to have a look at the basics of AP Style[...]
Have you ever wished you could simply dictate an entire novel, rather than typing it out at a desk? Are you a podcaster or youtuber who needs to produce a transcript of your audio quickly and effortlessly? I’m sure you are already familiar with dictation. At some point, all of us have tried dictating a text message into our phone to a friend (and laughed about it later if the software made a[...]