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...
by Karen Smith | Feb 11, 2025 | Blog
In my daily perusal of Facebook, I came across an author proudly announcing the debut of his just-published book. Intrigued, I went to the book’s buy page on Amazon and read its description. The well-written description intrigued me further—just the kind of...
by Karen Smith | Feb 4, 2025 | Blog
Lately I read a couple of books that had truly laughable malapropisms. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a malapropism is “the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase especially : the use of a word sounding somewhat like...
