by Karen Smith | Mar 25, 2025 | Blog
A potential client recently accepted my offer to provide her with a sample edit. I received the first 1,000 words of her manuscript and dug in. The first three paragraphs dwelled on world-building, expository description of the protagonist’s immediate...
by Karen Smith | Mar 11, 2025 | Blog
The cognitive dissonance is real. A barrage of celebratory posts and posts decrying rampant misogyny and more posts about wokeness erasing women from language and law heralded International Women’s Day (March 8). It reminded me of two things: 1. Take Back the...
by Karen Smith | Mar 5, 2025 | Blog
One might think that some who’s an editor, ghostwriter, and author would have experience with book clubs. In my case, one would be wrong. A high school friend of my younger son invited me to join a book club she was starting. I accepted. She scheduled a date,...
by Karen Smith | Feb 25, 2025 | Blog
The second book in The Bounty series is available for purchase as of today. You can get your copy here: https://linktr.ee/Zero0Eight#collection-3b7f4fac-1f29-436c-994d-b365221fced8. Did you read the first book, The Bounty: Jones? This story follows bounty hunter Emmet...
by Karen Smith | Feb 18, 2025 | Blog
I responded to a request for proposals a few months ago and, to my surprise, received a message from the potential client last week. I’d forgotten about my proposal, but he expressed interest in having me design his book. He explained that he’d written and...
