Tag: books

Copyrighting your writing is easier than you might think, thanks to the Copyright Act of 1976. In fact, your writing is likely already copyrighted.

One of the first things booksellers, retailers, and distributors look for is an ISBN. Does your book have one?

You can’t put your finger on why exactly your book is ugly, but you know it could look better. Here are some tips on where your book design can go wrong and how to fix it.

Learn how to estimate the page count of your book manuscript, how to format your manuscript to make editors happy, and how long your book should generally be depending on its genre.

Your writing is too long. How do I know? If you haven’t spent time cutting words from your writing, it’s too long.

George Orwell was greatly concerned with truth and language and how deliberately misleading language is used to conceal disagreeable political facts. To guide writers into writing clearly and truthfully, he proposed six writing rules.