Category: Industry Information

  • Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Guidelines for Submitting a Manuscript

    It’s time. You’re finally ready to submit your writing to a press. After many hours of researching and editing, it would certainly be a shame to see your manuscript returned to you, the dreaded rejection slip attached to the cover. In order to avoid this disappointing outcome, we’ve compiled a…

  • How to Measure Readability

    Have you every measured the readability of your writing? We’ve all had a text to read where we didn’t understand a word it said, no matter how many times we read it. Readability is the ease with which a reader can understand a written text. You may have been perfectly…

  • NaNoWriMo 2018 Officially Begins!

    It’s November which means it’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Authors of all genres take part in the challenge to write a 50,000 word novel from November 1 to November 30. If you’re as good at math as you are at writing, you’ll realize that’s 1,667 words per day. It’s…

  • Literary Agents: Finding the Best Fit

    Literary agents are agents who represent authors and their manuscripts. They help secure a book deal between the author and a publisher. Though their role isn’t essential to getting a book published, it can be beneficial because they have network connections to the best book publishers, and often have worked…

  • A Linguist’s Tree of Knowledge: Tree Diagrams

    Learn about tree diagrams and how they differ from the Reed-Kellogg system.

  • Successfully Marketing a Book: An Author’s Role

    An important part of finding success as an author is marketing. Though book publishers help create positive buzz, authors must take on the primary responsibility of marketing their book. Marketing combines elements of publicity, promotions, and public relations to generate interest from an audience and create sales. A marketing plan…

  • Classroom Grammar: An Introduction to the Reed-Kellogg System

    The Reed-Kellogg system is a method for diagramming sentences that was commonly taught in grammar classrooms in the past. The system was introduced in the 1870s by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg. Previous methods of diagramming focused solely on teaching proper word order to students. The Reed-Kellogg system offered an…

  • Know Your Author Rights

    It’s an exciting time when a publisher accepts an author’s manuscript. However, with the celebration comes a contract that discusses ownership rights. Authors and potential authors may wonder what rights to retain and what rights to grant to publishers. Before you make any hasty decisions, you first need to know…