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Dec 12, 2020
4 min

Sensitivity Readers: An Editing Specialty Comes of Age

In June 2019, I posted an article to this blog called "Sensitivity Readers Are Not Censors." At that time, controversy was swirling aroun...

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Personal Essays are Still a Hot Commodity

Trish Lockard

Nov 16, 2019
3 min

Personal Essays are Still a Hot Commodity

A personal essay is about a topical subject discussed from a personal perspective, yours or someone else’s.

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Smart Writers Seek Smart Editors for Their Best Work

Trish Lockard

Oct 7, 2019
3 min

Smart Writers Seek Smart Editors for Their Best Work

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to talk about this issue of self-editing and the necessity of hiring a professional ...

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Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 2

Terri Lyon

Jul 28, 2019
3 min

Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 2

Author Terri Lyon focuses on how she evaluates the effectiveness of her author platform to create an audience and generate sales.

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Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 1

Terri Lyon

Jul 17, 2019
5 min

Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 1

If you self-publish, you won't make many sales without an author platform. If you want a contract with an agent or a publisher, they will...

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Trish Lockard

Jun 8, 2019
4 min

Sensitivity Readers Are Not Censors

Censorship, which takes many forms, means the suppression or prohibition of something. So, let’s be clear, sensitivity readers have no power

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A Work of Fiction is Not a Fill-in-the-blank Game

Trish Lockard

Apr 27, 2019
3 min

A Work of Fiction is Not a Fill-in-the-blank Game

I studied journalism and advertising in college. These areas of mass communications, as my major was called, might sound unrelated, even ...

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