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Editor-Proof Your Writing: 21 Steps to the Clear Prose Publishers and Agents Crave by Don McNair Paperback/eBook, 230 pages Published April 1st 2013 by Linden Publishing Most editing manuals are like geography books. They give great information, but don’t show how to get from place to place. Editor-Proof Your Writing: 21 Steps to the Clear Prose Publishers and Agents Crave is a GPS that leads you through the writing jungle to solve your specific writing problems.  Most editing manuals are like dictionaries from which you’re asked to select words to write the Great American Novel. This book shows what words to use and what words NOT to use.  Most editing manuals are loaded with mind-numbing theory. This one presents knowledge a step at a time and asks you to apply what you learned—a step at a time—to your manuscript’s first chapter. Along the way you’ll also edit a nine-chapter melodrama and check your editing against the author’s. When you finish, you’ll h...

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping for by our blog. We are thrilled to be participating in the Signed Book Giveaway Hop which runs from now to April 22nd. This hop, hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer  and  Wholly Books , is all about books signed by the author. There are over eighty blogs participating in this hop and the list can be found here . We are lucky to live close to Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a special group called the Hudson Valley YA Society  which holds monthly special events at the bookstore (the events we've  attended ). The featured authors all write YA and we try to attend these events whenever we can. Last month we saw and met YA author Megan Miranda and you can see her (in the picture below) autographing our three books. We have an ARC of  Fracture  which she signed and we are giving it away to one lucky reader (sorry, US residents only). Fracture (Fracture #1)  by Megan Miranda YA...

We have werewolfs and shifters at Reader Girls this Monday. We are today's stop on My Wolf's Bane Blog Tour hosted by Crush Publishing . We have an excerpt to share and our interview with the author. Our review can be found here . My Wolf's Bane by Veronica Blade YA paranormal*Print and ebook, 365 pages  Publisher: Crush Publishing, Inc (publication date - February 1st, 2013) Purchase:  Amazon  | Book trailer:  My Wolf's Bane Different species. Mortal enemies. It'll never work, but they'll die trying. Autumn Rossi thought she was a normal teenager. Suddenly, she can outrun creatures in the forest, making her wonder if she’s even human. When the new guy at school, Zack de Luca, witnesses a questionable scene, he unfairly pins her as stuck-up. He acts like he hates her, yet he keeps bailing her out of trouble. Not only is Zack insufferable and irresistible, he seems to sniff her anytime he gets close. As passion flares ...

My Wolf's Bane  by Veronica Blade YA paranormal*Print and ebook, 365 pages  Publisher: Crush Publishing, Inc (publication date - February 1st, 2013) NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: As with any Veronica Blade book, this is a ROMANCE NOVEL, meaning it's romance FIRST and everything else is secondary. Rated PG-13 for sexual situations and mild profanity. Different species. Mortal enemies. It'll never work, but they'll die trying. Autumn Rossi thought she was a normal teenager. Suddenly, she can outrun every critter in the forest, making her wonder if she’s even human. When the new guy at school, Zack de Luca, witnesses a questionable scene, he unfairly pins her as stuck-up. He acts like he hates her, yet he keeps bailing her out of trouble. Not only is Zack both insufferable and irresistible, he seems to sniff her anytime he gets close. As passion flares between them, Autumn isn’t sure which is more dangerous: her psycho ex-boyfriend, or falling...