by Gina Ardito | Jul 11, 2014 | Chicago Manual of Style, E.L. James, Editing, Excellence in Editing, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Questions
Continuing the series, here are ten questions that go through my mind while working as an editor:1. What makes you think I’m going to do all the work and hand over a pristine manuscript, ready for immediate uploading to various publishing sites? Any published...
by Gina Ardito | Jun 3, 2011 | Annette Blair, Friday Five, Jayne Ann Krentz, Nora Roberts, Patricia Potter, Quotations, RWA National, Steve Axelrod, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Last month, at the New England Imagination in Flight Conference, I had the opportunity to thank author Annette Blair for sitting in on my workshop. She told me she’d learned a thing or two from me and added, “You’re never too published to take in a...
by scottd | Jul 29, 2010 | absinthe, ambition, Bertrice Small, Dunes And Dreams, keynote luncheon, Nora Roberts, RWA National
Last night, after a terrific turnout at the Literacy signing (a special hello to fan girl Gabriela, who insisted on taking a photo with me, which totally made my night!), the Dunes & Dreamers (a term coined by our own Bertrice Small) finally settled down from the...
by scottd | Jan 20, 2010 | Contest, Nora Roberts, RITAs, RWA
Came home from my usual round of errands yesterday to find a fairly large UPS box with a return address of RWA in Texas. Hmmm…Oh, right! I signed up to judge the RITAs this year! These were my entries. And in my precious box? Six category romances, one paperback...
