Books by Jack Phillips Lowe

The publication human race is so incredibly competitory nowadays, both aspirant and experienced writers who wish to win demand to do certain that their submissions—be that queries, proposals, partials or complete manuscripts—are arsenic flawless as they can possibly be. It travels without saying that these entries must be free of spelling and grammatical mistakes; that's only the beginning. Editors and agents pay attending to a batch of other inexpert errors in a submission. In this her up-to-the-minute book, award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson uncovers what those other mistakes are, what you can do to descry them on your ms and, more than than importantly, right them.

Johnson demystifies how to descry hanging participles, elves of the inactive voice (which stubbornly maintain appearing after having edited your ms twice), and innocuous understanding errors, among other underhand jobs like overexploitation of adverbs and adjectives, gerunds, unneeded inquiry Marks and exclaiming points, handling possessives and apostrophes, hyphens, dual adjectives, and more.

You'll larn how to do the redaction procedure more effortless, including how to put up your Word programme to make markers easier, as well as manual and electronic techniques for spotting errors. The book also includes helpful sidebars with particularly of import information on all facets of ego editing. Samuel Johnson also discusses the most common inexpert errors authors often make. At the end of the book there is a chunky appendix with tons of to the point and relevant resources.

One of the things I establish more than interesting about this book is the 'inside' information from the point of position of assorted agents. I also believe Samuel Johnson gives very valuable advice when she urges NOT doing the concluding two edits on the computing machine screen, but on printed transcript instead. I particularly like the chapters on how to put up Word for optimizing the ego redaction process; I have got read many books on redaction but never came upon this practical component before. Moreover, Samuel Johnson composes in a friendly, engaging style, making the reading of this book both an gratifying and informative experience.

Ideally, hiring a professional editor is the best manner to go, but unfortunately, not every author have the resources to engage one. Getting a transcript of The Economical Editor and using it as a mention usher is the adjacent best thing. Highly recommended for writers who are serious about their work and willing to beat out the odds.