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Monthly Archive for: "July, 2020"
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 Three-sentence Review: This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda
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By Patricia Collins
In Three-sentence Reviews
Posted July 31, 2020

Three-sentence Review: This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda

A three-sentence review of This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda published by Tor Teen. It’s the mid-1930s and a Japanese-American boy in Washington state begins a pen pal relationship with the [...]

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 When Should You Hire a Copyeditor?
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By Patricia Collins
In Editing
Posted July 28, 2020

When Should You Hire a Copyeditor?

Or: How to not waste your time and money. You wrote a novel! Maybe it’s the next great American novel, maybe it’s your first foray into the writing world, maybe it’s your first contemporary [...]

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 Three-sentence Review: Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis
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By Patricia Collins
In Three-sentence Reviews
Posted July 23, 2020

Three-sentence Review: Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis

Three-sentence review of Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis. Published by Katherine Tegen Books This three-sentence review needs only one sentence: Man vs. Nature, but with teenage girl! Given [...]

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 Revising Your Novel? Eliminate These Four Things.
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By Patricia Collins
In Writing
Posted July 21, 2020

Revising Your Novel? Eliminate These Four Things.

You’ve written a draft of a novel and you’ve revised enough times to know that your story is pretty awesome. What other things need revision? I’ve got a list of four things to look for. When I [...]

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 Five Things to Do After You’ve Finished Your First Draft
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By Patricia Collins
In Writing
Posted July 10, 2020

Five Things to Do After You’ve Finished Your First Draft

You have finished a first draft! You’ve written a novel! Break out the smoking jacket with the patches on the sleeves. Pipe optional! What to do now, though? Maybe it was easy to write that [...]

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 Three-sentence Review: The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
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By Patricia Collins
In Three-sentence Reviews
Posted July 9, 2020

Three-sentence Review: The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

A three-sentence review of The Voting Both by Brandy Colbert published by Disney-Hyperion Marva is fired up to vote for the first time; Duke is eager to check a trip to the voting booth off his [...]

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 Don’t Let Headline-Style Capitalization Give You a Headache
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By Patricia Collins
In Grammar
Posted July 9, 2020

Don’t Let Headline-Style Capitalization Give You a Headache

Or: Breaking Down Chicago Manual of Style 8.159 In headline-style capitalization, Most Words Are Capitalized. It differs from sentence-style capitalization in which The first [...]

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