John Verrico

On 28 June 2024, ICF completed 9 years. Founded for professional editors, ICF best represents and serves those editors who are committed to their profession and are serious about growing their craft and business. The brand’s driving belief is this: Editing improves a book by several notches. In fact, it is a necessary step to make any text worth publication. Editors should take pride in their work, individually and collectively. The ICF brand’s core values are sharing, honesty, integrity, simplicity, practical thinking, and collective strength. ICF is a safe space for sharing of knowledge and learning from one another’s experiences as our members are approachable, nonjudgmental and humane and are always willing to help. If you are a member of ICF, the collective helps you become a better editor and offers you a sense of community with fellow editors. It improves your professional journey significantly. As a member of ICF, you * Gain insights on editing. * Get information and guidance that would otherwise not be available to you. * Get leads for work. * Gain a sense of community and kinship. * Are able to enhance your editing and business skills. This is India’s only such collective, founded on the insight that collective strength is vital for growth, development and transformation. All About ICF in a single link: http://linktr.ee/icf_2015 #editing #association #collective #copyediting #editors #

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Do you suffer from "fear of said?" Learn more about this and other ways to make your dialogue stronger with these 5 tips. https://lnkd.in/eCkQHRq #amwriting #writetip #writingtips

Do you suffer from "fear of said?" Learn more about this and other ways to make your dialogue stronger with these 5 tips. https://lnkd.in/eCkQHRq #amwriting #writetip #writingtips

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Do you suffer from "fear of said?" Learn more about this and other ways to make your dialogue stronger with these 5 tips. https://lnkd.in/eCkQHRq #amwriting #writetip #writingtips

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What is the difference between your ‘story map’ and your ‘plot outline’?   Your story map lays out all the events of your story, including events leading up to the timeframe in which your story takes place. This is the map that shows all the context and reveals all the actions of your characters. Nothing is held back, everything is laid bare. This is for the author’s eyes only. It is essential to your understanding and for your ability to stay in control of your story world.   Your plot outline lays out the events you will turn your narrative spotlight on, and the order in which you will reveal them. This is the shape of the story as your readers will experience it. A lot that appears in your story map will not be included, or will only be implied or hinted at. Where your ‘spotlight’ falls (what you choose to focus on) is crucial to the creation of: tension, anticipation, mystery, excitement, and character interest. This is where a story is shaped, sculpted, made into a compelling narrative from the raw elements of imagined characters and events. What you reveal, what you conceal, and when you do so is crucial to the art of fiction.

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Writing the blurb for a self-published book is one of the freedoms independent authors enjoy. However, this task typically comes just after you have completed your final draft, are exhausted from months (sometimes even years) of hard work, and are too close to the manuscript to be objective. https://lnkd.in/gKFJiT57 #writing #publishing #books #bookblurb #howto

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What is a mermaid doing in the middle of a page of this 19th-century Javanese poem manuscript? And what does this remarkable ingredient--not an illustration, but something much more profound--have to teach us about writing that we in the West have lost or forgotten? All is revealed at https://lnkd.in/eHRAMzA4

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"A talented storyteller, and a master at creating memorable characters, Jones transports readers to a deep South farm..."BookLife Review #BookLovers #Bookstagram #BookAddict #Bibliophile #Bookworm #Reading #BookNerd #Bookish #BookCommunity #ReadersOfInstagram #BooksOfInstagram #BookLove #IGReads #AmReading #BookClub #BookObsessed #Bookstagrammer #Bookaholic #ReadingTime #BookRecommendations #Family #EditorsPick

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TODAY! Jumpstart your book-writing journey with the help you need to escape the overwhelm, procrastination, and confusion of writing a book by yourself. Please join me for a free, virtual information session TODAY—Wednesday, August 14, 2024—at Noon Eastern on Zoom. Please register: https://lnkd.in/erU7mqdt. This is for you if you're an entrepreneur, speaker, business leader, or someone who has a burning desire to write your life story and leave a legacy, create new income streams, boost your branding and business, and influence the world in a positive way, then it's time for you to join: WOMEN WRITING BOOKS! This program created by Two Sisters Writing & Publishing® births best-selling authors by teaching you everything you need to know to write, publish, and promote your great book. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Ann Atkins, co-founder of Two Sisters Writing & Publishing®. My sister Catherine Greenspan and I have written and published more than 50 books in eight years since starting our business in 2016. I'm also a best-selling author of memoirs, romantic thrillers, business books and spiritual books. As a book coach, I help aspiring writers across America and beyond bring their ideas to life on the pages of published books that impact people around the world. It's time to make that happen for YOU! My next "Six Months to Best-Selling Book Success" program—now offered for women only—begins in September, so you could finish your book by February 2025. “I’d never written a book before,” says best-selling author Joanie Lindenmeyer, a former Catholic nun and retired phys education teacher who wrote Nun Better: An Amazing Love Story during this program. “Elizabeth guided me every step of the way and I did it! Now my book is touching lives and hearts around the world, and it’s become my life mission. I can’t recommend enough that you join this program and write your best book possible. Elizabeth is a literary genius who will meet you where you are to write your book. And you’ll have fun along the way.” Your book won't write itself. Don't take your book to the grave. Take action now to bring it into the world and share it with people who need it. And if you're too busy... don't have time... don't know where to start... feel overwhelmed... fear your writing isn't good enough... are worried that nobody will read your book... Then please allow me to share my experience and expertise—along with great enthusiasm—to help YOU finally write, publish and promote your best-selling book. It's time to take your life to the next level with the extraordinary accomplishment of becoming a publisher author. It's an amazing experience, and I want to help make it happen for YOU! #womenwriters #writing #howtowriteabook #howtowrite #womenCEOs #womanCEO #womenspeakers #womenfounders #femalefounders #booksbywomen #womenwritingbooks #writingcoach #womeninpublishing #womenauthors #bookcoach Leisa Peterson

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We love to see what inspires our authors! Today, we're catching up with Susan Cushman to see what she's reading. Stay tuned for more reading recommendations straight from our authors. #AuthorReads #CurrentlyReading #BookLover #AmReading #WriterLife #IndieAuthor #Bookstagram #Bookish #TBR #ReadersCommunity #WritersOfInstagram #BookRecommendations #ReadingTime #AuthorLife #BookAddict #LiteraryInspiration #IndieBooks #StoryTeller #BookBuzz #BookCommunity #ReadMoreBooks #PilgrimInterrupted #SusanCushman

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My latest Substack is a reprint of a piece published in Writer's Digest. I invite you to read it here: https://loom.ly/YUJ_ttM

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A press release from Fantastic Books: What kind of siding do you need to protect your house from werewolves? Would you kill someone to prevent them from committing suicide? What would you say to him if you met Dr. Frankenstein? Imagine building a clockwork god… that truly is God. How many times can you execute a mass murderer? What is a goddess to do when her worshippers abandon her for another? Could you carry out a death sentence yourself? If you were the last person on Earth, would you know it? Forget “raised by wolves.” What about the boy raised by birds? It’s a hard life for the man who is always second. Imagine a world where nothing dies. Nothing. What would a zombie have to do to prove his status as undead? In these Disturbing Stories, Ron Miller answers (or in some cases, asks) questions that will make you look at the world differently, and not necessarily from a position of comfort. “Ron Miller has the rare gift of being a visionary in two ways: a superb imaginative artist who is also a fine storyteller. I’ve been an admirer of his paintings for many years; what a pleasure it is to discover that his short stories are just as wonderful. Disturbing Stories is a terrific collection; read this book, by all means.” —Allen Steele, three-time Hugo Award-winner Disturbing Stories by Ron Miller $15.99, 268 pages, trade paperback, ISBN: 978-1-5154-5821-0 Fantastic Books is pleased to be publishing Disturbing Stories on June 11, 2024. Review copies are available upon request. https://lnkd.in/eDnuJAYy

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