by David Colin Carr | Dec 23, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
23 December, 2013 An old friend happened to call this morning to ask about converting into ebooks some slim volumes he self-published a couple of years ago (in Paris, how romantic, sitting in a café over wine with an Algerian cover designer). He’s been writing poetry...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 17, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
December 17, 2013 Much as I appreciate integrity in others, I try to act with integrity myself. So I’m finding myself in a quandary. At our last BAIPA meeting (www.baipa.org – our local network of people involved in all aspects of self-publishing) I offered to write a...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 10, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
December 10, 2013 A writing colleague through my professional network of independent publishers (the PC term for self-publisher) asked if I would do a sample edit of one chapter so she could compare it to the work of other editors she was considering hiring. I have...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 3, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
2 December, 2013 This blog usually arises from the challenge of my work week. But following the move, I ran off for a week’s vacation that had been planned a year earlier. I returned last night and have been so brain dead that I had not a thought about my professional...
by David Colin Carr | Nov 26, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
November 15, 2013 I often read opening paragraphs of my favorite books to my clients with the intention of inspiring them to capture their reader in the first two paragraphs while symbolizing the depth of the content that will follow. So much time that I was sure I...