Our non-fiction authors make wonderful use of metaphor, which – as you probably know – is a comparison. Using a metaphor, a writer will write about a storm (right?) to express what he/she wants to say about life. This can be a very useful tool. Storms have defining characteristics that can be applied to the […]

A famous author once told us that she reads books by other people when she is in a writing phase. But she has plenty of author friends who don’t because they get infected by the styles of the writers they are reading, and these voices creep into their own writing. For beginning writers, this can […]

We are currently doing a third edit on a client’s book and we are so excited we can hardly stand it. The book has gotten so good! This author has worked long and hard to get here; the book has been in the works for decades. We are full of admiration for this author’s determination […]