Sustainable Freelance Editing

Freelance Editor Online, a recently launched website, is the newest affiliate of Helping You Get Published.

Highlights on the new site include:

Information and video about sustainable writing, editing, and publishing

FAQs about Freelance Editor Online and freelance editing

Articles about freelance editing and the role of the freelance editor in writing, editing, and publishing

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An Alternative Approach to the Query Letter & Book Proposal

From Helping You Get Published: An Alternative Approach . . . The query letter and book proposal have long been fundamental to the process of submitting your book manuscript to literary agents and traditional publishers . . .

Favorite Literary & Writing Quote #24

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

—Barbara Kingsolver

New Book Trailer

Helping You Get Published: New Book Trailer: Watch the latest trailer from Helping You Get Published  . . . In the quiet of a village churchyard, something evil waits . . . The Marble Orchard, a mystery novel by Mitch Kynock . . .

Favorite Literary & Writing Quote #23

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

Favorite Literary & Writing Quote #22

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
 —George Orwell