by Bethany Jett, @BetJett I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt Meeting deadlines can set you apart in the publishing world, because just as a lot of people don't turn in proposals that are requested at conferences, a lot…

by Bethany Jett, @BetJett Do I need an agent? If a publisher is interested in my work, can't I craft the deal myself? What can agent really do to help me? If I represent myself, don't I keep all of my royalties? At some point in our writing careers, we have…

by Bethany Jett, @betjett We’ve come to the last post in How to Get an Editor to Say Yes. We could fill a volume of books with editing tips and tricks, but today we’re going to focus on how to submit an article or story to an editor, for this is where…

by Bethany Jett, @betjett So far in this series on How to Get an Editor to Say Yes, we’ve covered Part One: Self-Editing Tips and Part Two: Avoiding Tattle-Tale Mode. Our goal is to cover some tips that seem to pop up again and again in submissions...errors that make an editor's eyes…

by Bethany Jett, @betjett The two best ways to learn self-editing is to (1) have a great editor pour red ink all over your own work and (2) edit other people's. I. First Readers and Editors My first reader is not my editor. Neither is my second. Their purpose is…

by Bethany Jett, @betjett Writing nonfiction carries a promise to the reader. This promise not only extends to the book as a whole, but also within chapters, and to be nitty gritty, the sub-headings as well. If you pick up a book called “Get Out of Debt in Six Months or…