Milford House Mysteries: Tips on Editing
On this episode of The Milford House Mysteries, co-hosts Sherry Knowlton and J.M. West share their \u201cTips on Editing Your Manuscript.\u201d Although this\xa0 podcast is primarily targeted to authors, these tips could be useful to anyone who does a lot of writing, whether for publication or for their job. Most of these tips are geared to authors preparing to submit a manuscript to an agent, a publisher, or to the self-publishing process. Sherry and Joan discuss topics like: ideal word count; the basics of grammar, spelling and punctuation; style manuals; hidden pitfalls like wordiness, repetition, unnecessary words; and techniques to help the writers with the editing process. Please tune in.\n\nMilford House Mysteries Hosts - Sherry Knowlton is the author of the\xa0Alexa Williams\xa0series of murder mysteries including\xa0Dead of Autumn,\xa0Dead of Summer,\xa0Dead of Spring, and Dead of Winter. Joan West is the author of the Carlisle Crime Cases series including\xa0Dying for Vengeance,\xa0Courting Doubt and Darkness,\xa0Darkness at First\xa0Light, Had a Dying Fall and Things Strangled.