The Book Doctor Answers Your Questions
Below are some questions and answers
from her monthly column
About Book Covers and Free Feedback
About Chapter Format, the Library of Congress, and Using Big Words
About E-mail Submissions, Standard Manuscript Format, and Using the Names of Periodicals
About Commas, E-books, and Pseudonyms
About query letters, dialogue, formatting flashbacks, and telling vs. showing
About Titles, Parts, and the Right Time to Edit
About Capital Letters, Word Counts and Song Lyrics
About It’s or Its, Numerals, and Self Publishing versus Traditional Publishing
About Avoiding Fraud and Finding Your Voice
About Sample Chapters, Commas, and Audio Book Recordings
About short story collections, nonfiction books, speculative fiction, and editor’s ink
About Point of View and Flashbacks
About Categorizing Manuscripts, Handling Pet Names and Terms of Endearment, Recommended Manuscript Lengths, and Hiring Practices
About Selling Your Work and About Poetry Contests
About Viewpoints, Word Choices, and Creating Anthologies
Some Decisions Are up to the Author
About Tips on Writing for Magazines
About Self Publishing, Screenplay Agents, and Ghostwriting
About Avoiding Fraud and Finding Your Voice
What do Acquisitions Editors Really Mean?
About Freelance Issues
About Writing for a Living in Dumbed-Down America
About the newest guidelines, “direct” quotes, setting states off by commas, and attributions
About Cookbooks, Prologues and Prefaces
About word counts, freelance terminology and self publishing
About Self Publishing Versus Finding an Agent
About Contractions, Conferences and Formatting Manuscripts
Deer Editer, Do I Need a Editer?
About Career Writing and Writing Through Grief
About commas, semicolons, quotation marks and italics
Yes, Editors Use Editors, and I Couldn't Care Less
About Book Doctoring
What Do You Call a Writer Who Can’t Finish a Project?
About pseudonyms, submissions, audio books and writing in English as a second language
About publishers, Amazon.com, and poor reviews
About Trademarks, Commas, ISBN numbers and more
About Education, Punctuation and Submission
Should I submit the first draft of my book to an agent?
Do you have any suggestions for coming up with a plot?
Do you have an opinion on a travel-writing course?
What's the Difference Between an Editor and a Book Doctor?
Someone has asked me to ghostwrite a book --
How much should I charge?
How can I find a publisher for my nonfiction book?
More will be added every month, so check back often!
Do you have a question
for the Book Doctor?
Email her at
Bobbie@zebraeditor.com
