Category: Editing

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“It was a giant puzzle, and making the pieces fit was delightful.” Q&A with Bethany Jacobs, author of These Burning Stars

Q&A with Bethany Jacobs. Editing, revisions and the journey to publication.

Hello and welcome to this very special blog post: a conversation with Bethany Jacobs, author of the newly released queer space opera These Burning Stars. We’ll be talking all about the editing process that These Burning Stars went through, from first draft to finished publication.

Bethany and I worked together during the 2020 session of Pitch Wars, after which Bethany went on to sign with an agent and land a three-book deal with the publisher Orbit. These Burning Stars, the gripping first instalment of the Kindom trilogy, comes out this week (17 October in the US; 19 October in the UK) and I’m so excited for everyone to read it!

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Does your blurb give the right impression? 6 feedback questions to ask readers

Does your blurb give the right impression? 6 feedback questions to ask readers.

The blurb of your book should do a few simultaneous things:

  • hook in your target audience,
  • repel people who definitely aren’t your target audience,
  • and set expectations for those who go on to read your book.

All three of these things are very important. They have an impact on who is reading your book, and they can influence the reading experience of those people. This, in turn, can impact the reviews your book gets and whether readers are keen to read more of your work.

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