Authors Electric

          With such a wealth of expertise on Authors Electric we felt it was about time some of us shared our top tips. So here they are:    Bill Kirton "Trust your own voice. You don’t necessarily need big, fancy or poetic words, or a huge vocabulary. Your way of putting things is unique so trust it." Bill Kirton: click here to discover more about Bill  and his work. ______________________________________ Karen Bush "You might think you've spotted all the typos, but really, you haven't. Trust me on this. Try reading it in different fonts: print off hard copies to read as well as on screen as it can help you to catch them. And ask someone to read through it too - doesn't need to be an expert or expensive proofreader, just someone with a reasonable grasp of spelling. And use a highlighter to mark up the errors on paper copies, as when you come back to them to make corrections, it's easy to m...

          The surface of Do Authors Dream of Electric Books? may look as smooth and unruffled as ever, but what you readers out there can’t see are the great flurries of activity going on behind the façade.           CRACK! goes our lightening bolt, and spread out on the slab is a lifeless something covered by a sheet. Flitting here and there in the gloom are various electric authors hurrying in with their proof-read blogs. Authors Electric's Julia Jones           Huddled round the slab are the leaders of this particular project. Here is Julia Jones , who, at dark of moon, delved to unearth old and buried blogs from the past year, and skilfully stitched them together to make something new and beautiful. Author's Electric's Pauline Fisk There, eagerly and ably assisting, are KathleenJones and Pauline Fisk , who are runnin...