by Karen Smith | Feb 7, 2023 | Blog
Potential customers often base their purchasing decisions on product reviews. A potential customer likely won’t buy a product that has a majority of critical and/or negative reviews. It’s the digital age’s version of what was formerly a neighborhood...
by Karen Smith | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog
I’ve been writing, editing, and formatting documents for well over 30 years, although none of that has been as an employee of a publishing company. I got my start in the marketing department of an architectural and engineering firm. I wrote and formatted A/E...
by Karen Smith | Jan 24, 2023 | Blog
You’ve probably seen a meme prompting for a response to answer a question along the lines of “What song defines your life?” My standard answer is “It Don’t Come Easy” by Ringo Starr of Beatles fame. Regardless of how silly it may be...
by Karen Smith | Jan 17, 2023 | Blog
New authors especially don’t necessarily understand the time it takes to produce a good book. Any craptastic piece of content can be created and published almost instantaneously, but a good story properly formatted and enhanced by a good cover takes time. It may...
by Karen Smith | Jan 10, 2023 | Blog
Perusing various writing groups nearly every day, I come across a lot of “newbie” writers who ask whether they are allowed to write certain things. I’m tempted to respond like an English teacher: “I don’t know, can you?”Other than...
by Karen Smith | Jan 3, 2023 | Blog
Editors are not a writer’s enemy.It’s dismaying to see post after post by writers either eschewing professional editing or who accuse editors as greedy thieves. Yes, there are some bad actors out there. Every profession has its proverberial bad apples.The...
