Melanie Saxton

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Yes, you can enhance your AI content with the help of a professional and highly experienced book editor! Hire me to add an authentic human touch to your book project with nuance, emotion, empathy, humor, colloquialisms, genuine cultural references, and imagination. Need a Professional Book Editor to Enhance Your AI Content?

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Melanie Saxton

JULY 5, 2024

Autobiography and memoir portfolio page with legacy books, medical books, self-help topics, and testimonials. Enjoy my autobiography and memoir portfolio filled with samplings of legacy books and other personal journeys as well. We appreciate your involvement in our book effort. I can’t say thanks enough.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 9, 2024

Show of hands, writers, how many of you love book marketing? Book Marketing Misconception 1: Always be closing “Always be closing” is a marketing truism that does a disservice to authors. So if your entire message is “buy my book,” then you’re losing your audience and not getting sales. Authors hate what they think marketing is.

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Write Out Loud

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Did you know that 81% of people have said they would like to write a book? Continue reading on Write Out Loud »

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Melanie Saxton

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Why have your book edited? I correct grammatical errors , punctuation mistakes, and awkward sentence structures to ensure your book is polished and professional. I correct grammatical errors , punctuation mistakes, and awkward sentence structures to ensure your book is polished and professional. I can help!

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Melanie Saxton

JUNE 24, 2024

One of my favorite Christian book projects was More than Sparrows by author D. As a faith-based editor , I cherish the author’s feedback about the book editing process: “After drafting my Christian fiction manuscript, I thought, Now what? I would be thrilled to work on your faith-based book as well. Learn more here.

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Melanie Saxton

JUNE 24, 2024

I admire author John Doyle Anderson and am proud of my faith-inspired book editing contribution as his editor and collaborator. You can find this remarkable book on Amazon. Author John Doyle Anderson’s book is an excellent example of historical fiction. What is Historical Fiction? What is Historical Fiction?

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Melanie Saxton

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Discover more here about Goodreads and learn more about my book editor and ghostwriter services here and here. As a book editor and ghostwriter , keeping up with literary awards is a must. Goodreads has announced “Best Book” winners for 2023 , and I’m excited to see the recipient book titles and authors.

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Melanie Saxton

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s gratifying to work in the professional Christian book editing profession. About the Book Daniel Bishop hired me to edit Ralley Point: Place Of Refuge , which is such a wonderful story based on true-life challenges between a widower, his young daughter, his new wife, and her desire to have a baby.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 2, 2024

Today’s post is excerpted from The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Book Publishing by Michael Castleman. Meanwhile, copyrights were enforceable only within single jurisdictions, while rampant smuggling and unauthorized reproduction spread books everywhere. Anyone could copy them. They didn’t.

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The Idea Logical Company

MAY 8, 2024

My insight into the commercial world of book publishing is no longer informed by daily contact with people making their living in it. It doesn’t take a math genius to reckon that a pretty stable total book purchasing and readership constituency will result in dramatic reductions in sales per title.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But specifically, for writers and book publishing, it spreads so many myths and misconceptions about the business of authorship that I’ll be undoing the damage for years. (My None of this is to say social media doesn’t sell books—it can and it does —but it’s rarely in the way that any writer thinks. So let’s get straight to it.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 30, 2024

This tells Amazon your book isn’t relevant to the search, and that will impact your search rank on Amazon. Remember that first book you published that didn’t do well? The cover wasn’t great—you knew it could have or should have been better—but it was your first book, so you took it in stride. Yes, really.

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Melanie Saxton

JUNE 24, 2024

Christian book edits are a huge part of my service offerings. I work with faith-based authors who have written nonfiction books, fiction books, memoirs, autobiographies, legacy books, medical miracle books, veterinarian books, pastoral accounts, missionary accounts, self-help books, and other faith-based works.

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Melanie Saxton

JUNE 24, 2024

I am blessed to work in the world of inspired book editing, and it’s an honor to serve as Nadine Sands’ editor for High and Wide: When grief and love collide. About the Book From Amazon: High and Wide is the intimate story of grief and healing, leading up to and proceeding the earthly farewell of Nadine’s husband Michael.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 18, 2024

But every so often, you start a book you cannot bring yourself to finish. Other times, perhaps you want to throw the book across the room in frustration. And every book—no matter how popular—has its own legion of DNF readers. One disenchanted reader summed up the book this way: “SNOOZE!!!”

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Melanie Saxton

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Writing a legacy book means capturing your adventures for posterity! Writing a legacy book can be a meaningful and fulfilling project. Let’s start with how and why writing a legacy book (done right) can be life-changing for you and your descendants. Publishing Options Decide how you want to publish your legacy book.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For instance, here’s the story of Irene Yam, who enrolled in the course Stories in Miniature : I’m writing my first book. But my first book draft was too clinical. And I wondered, who’s ever going to read this book? I put my book aside for two weeks to take her class.

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Ahrefs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Here’s what they said: Authors: Stephan Spencer, Eric Enge, Jessica Stricchiola First published: 6 November 2009 Recommended by: Aleyda Solis Here’s why Aleyda recommended this book: Author: Eli Schwartz First published: 27 April 2021 Recommended by: Gus Pelogia, Philipp Götza, … Read more ›

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Freelance Magic

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Over the past 10 years, I’ve booked more than 100 clients. Once you’ve booked your next client, make sure you give them an excellent experience from start to finish. The post A Step-by-Step Guide to Booking Your Next Freelance Client appeared first on Freelance Magic. What happens next?

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Ahrefs

JULY 30, 2024

To find out, I asked 26 marketers (from Ahrefs and elsewhere) to recommend a book that influenced their marketing work. Here are their recommendations: Author: Daniel Priestley First published: 2015 Recommended by: Joshua Hardwick Here’s why Joshua recommends this book: … Read more ›

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Jane Friedman

JULY 17, 2024

AI-generated image using prompt “book publishing executives receiving lots of money from a technology company.” A handful of book publishers have already struck deals with the AI companies directly. Fortunately, she says publishers so far agree they need permission from authors to license books for AI.

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The Idea Logical Company

JUNE 5, 2023

Three decades ago, if you wanted a trade book, you went to a bookstore or a bigger merchant like Wal-mart or a department store with a book “section” It was actually hard to get a book any other way. Books must be the very best single consumer product to purchase online rather than in a physical shop.

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The Idea Logical Company

JANUARY 4, 2023

We’ve previously explored what I called “the end of the trade publishing concept” , which stems from the now wide-open opportunity to publish available to anybody with a computer and something to deliver as a book. That was the total number of books “in print” in English in the world.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Photo by Filip Mroz on Unsplash Today’s post is by author and book coach Kristin Melville. Story structure promotes the concept that every scene of your story should serve a larger purpose—e.g., the inciting incident sparks the problem, and the climax eventually brings everything to a head.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2023

In her book The Art of Memoir , Mary Karr discusses the importance of revision , and she shows us a rough draft of a sentence from her memoir Lit : Mother drove me to college in our yellow station wagon, and every night we stayed at a Holiday Inn, where we got drunk on screwdrivers. Want to know more? The rough draft. The power of stories.

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Write Freelance

JANUARY 21, 2023

Here are some of the great creative writing courses available online: (These courses are suitable for writers who are thinking about writing a fiction book but aren’t sure how to start. The course content includes downloadable articles and resources along with 30 hours of on-demand video. You’ll attend 4-5 hours of online classes per week.

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The Idea Logical Company

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The ruling was explicitly to protect the “competition” for the “anticipated top-selling books” In other words, the big books by big authors for which only the Big Five can compete regularly (with occasional bids coming in from a couple of other next-tier houses) will continue to have five well-funded suitors.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A few of the biggest include Frankfurt Book Fair, London Book Fair, and Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Trade shows are large gatherings of publishing industry professionals, primarily publishers, literary agents, book scouts, and people who sell/buy rights or license intellectual property. It will not.

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Enchanting Marketing

JULY 30, 2024

There’s always room for getting better Austin Kleon posted this quote from Ian Svenonius’s book Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group: If one becomes a lawyer, scholar, mechanist, typist, scientist, production assistant, or what-have-you, the world will commend your decision. They still practice to improve.

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 7, 2023

Sometimes, I savor a book slowly. I pick the book up, read a few pages, then put it down again. This book contains 272 pages but it took me almost 7 weeks to read. Book mentioned in this post: The link below is an Amazon affiliate link. I highlight ideas and sentences that attract my attention. The ride is smooth.

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Enchanting Marketing

JULY 2, 2024

Examples of personification in writing In her book Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm , Isabelle Tree describes what happens when farmland is left to re-wild after years of intensive agriculture: The land, released from its cycle of drudgery, seemed to be breathing a sigh of relief. Shall I show you how?

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Arrant Pedantry

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

There were eleven editions between 1906 and 1949, partly to update all the typeface samples, which in those editions—in the era of metal type—took up half the book. The grammar chapter is the longest in the book and includes topics that have inspired much recent debate. Can you tell us how you approached the revision of this chapter?

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Enchanting Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2023

This is from his book The Boron Letters : So anyway, today I’m going to start by telling you about a little trick that will improve your copywriting. Here’s how Sara Gibbs ends her book Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels : Right. I have no idea how to end this book. Fine, you’ve got me.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

” This blog post is inspired by the delightful book One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art , a collection of 38 interviews examining some of Hemingway’s most interesting sentences. Thank you, Phil , for the book recommendation.). A writer and a reader co-own a story. It’s a collaboration.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2024

In his book Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence , psychologist Dr Daniel Goleman suggests that a reader’s mind typically wanders off 20% to 40% of the time. For instance, the following sentence is rather meh: This book was so boring, I couldn’t get through. You’ve barely heard what they’re talking about on the radio.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Are you ready to write a book about your professional experience? Identifying Your Content Needs Before you begin the search for a content writer, take a step back. What are your content goals? Do you need blog posts, social media updates, whitepapers, or email campaigns?

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