Tips For Emerging Authors **write these

1. Clean manuscript presentation counts
2. Grab a hold of grammar
3. Improve your self-editing approach
4. Understand the big picture of storytelling
5. Decide your publishing game: long or short
6. How to write strong dialogue
7. Why you need to write that synopsis even if you’re self-publishing
8. What does style mean when applied to a manuscript?
9. How to avoid vagueness in writing
10. The job of page one of your novel
11. How to avoid a weak storyline
12. Blast that writer’s block forever!
13. Knowing the difference between point of view versus perspective
14. How to recognize your info dumps
15. To prologue or not to prologue

Bookmarks For Serious Authors

​Copyright
ISBN in Canada
Where to get your bar code in Canada
Illustrators
Permissions
Literary agents in Canada
Conferences
Keep in the know! (hot sheet, PW, …)
Need another or different kind of editor? Editors’ associations

For Your Shelf

​On story: (get Amazon affiliation)
Save the Cat
Full Time Author
The Writer’s Mentor
Book Craft
Manuscript Makeover
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
 
On editing:
Copywriter’s Handbook
Chicago Manual of Style

Gurus On The Go

​Surrey International Writer’s Festival
Creative Penn
Derek Murphy
Irish writers conference I have bookmarked