Whether you choose the self-publishing route or a traditional publisher, good revision skills are essential for every writer. Publishers are looking for print-ready quality. They have little time or money to invest on editing. For the independent author, good revision skills are even more important when reviews for poor editing can kill book sales. But polishing your own work can be tricky. Revise to Write will help you analyze your manuscript on the macro and micro levels to get a thoroughly critical overview. There’s no point to proofreading a manuscript that has major structural flaws. Start with the basic building blocks to make sure your foundation is solid. The Nuts and Bolts section helps you analyze structure, plot and characters. Then work down to a scene-by scene review of dialogue, point of view, description, pacing and more. In the Nitty Gritty section, refine your prose with thoughtful line edits and tips for effective proofreading. Includes checklists for each section, writing exercises to help you over trouble spots, resources for finding beta readers and other writing tools.

Revise to Write: Edit Your Novel, Get Published and Become a Better Writer

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McDougall, Kim

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Sometimes you just need to hug your fire dervish. Like when he protects you from brownies. Or goes down into the scary basement with you because he’s proud to be your apprentice. 
Or when he saves the world. 
Kyra Greene, pest controller to the extraordinary is back with a new adventure! 
A Guardian is dead. Fae are missing. And someone has let a golem loose in town. Ride along with Kyra Greene, the only pest controller qualified to deal with the strange and wonderful creatures that come out of the shadows when magic flares. 
With over 300 five-star reviews, see why readers are calling Dervishes Don’t Dance outrageous fun with a cast of critters and characters you’ll come to love. 
Dervishes Don’t Dance is the second book in the Valkyrie Bestiary Series. Paranormal suspense with heart.

Dervishes Don't Dance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Critter wrangler rule 7: Some monsters just have to die. Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail...or six feet in the ground. For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in Montreal Ward. They are dubbed Guardians by the humans and fae who live on the fringes of society, those who survive in neighborhoods the police don't care about. But when a Guardian is accused of murder, their reputation blackens. Mason promised to return from France with the one weapon capable of killing the formidable witch who was reborn from the bloodstone, but no one has heard from him in months. Now Polina gathers forces. Without Mason or the Guardians, Kyra has no backup as she tries to solve a murder and face off against new and terrifying monsters...all while caring for her growing menagerie of extraordinary critters. A new adventure in the Inbetween, where magic is the only rule of law. Hell Hounds Don't Heel is the third book in the Valkyrie Bestiary Series.

Hell Hounds Don't Heel (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Castelane

Someone is killing dragons. And the killings point to a civil war brewing among the fae.When Kyra Greene finds an abandoned baby dragon, she doesn’t want to bring him home. But until she can hunt down his thunder and stop the dragon killers, she’s on babysitting duty.As a pest controller with a soft heart, Kyra already has an apartment full of rescues, including a basilisk who thinks he’s a turkey, a banshee nanny, and a pygmy kraken. She might take care of them, but they also fill her need for family. And when that family is threatened, she’ll risk everything to save them. She’ll even join forces with the handsome and irritating captain of the city’s vigilante Guardians, who never fails to show up at her most undignified moments.Along with a quirky cast of misfits and unruly critters, Kyra leaves the safety of Montreal Ward and travels through the dangerous Inbetween—the land beyond the protected city states, where magic is the only rule of law. Can she reunite the lost dragon with his thunder and stop a new and sinister force from invading their home?With over 400 five-star reviews, see why readers are calling Dragons Don’t Eat Meat a laugh-out-loud adventure with delightfully evil critters and a slow-burn romance.Dragons Don’t Eat Meat is the first book in the Valkyrie Bestiary Series. Paranormal suspense with heart.

Dragons Don't Eat Meat (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail…or six feet in the ground. 
For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in Montreal Ward. They are dubbed Guardians by the humans and fae who live on the fringes of society, those who survive in neighborhoods the police don't care about. 
But when a Guardian is accused of murder, their reputation blackens. Mason promised to return from France with the one weapon capable of killing the formidable witch who was reborn from the bloodstone, but no one has heard from him in months. 
Now Polina gathers forces. Without Mason or the Guardians, Kyra has no backup as she tries to solve a murder and face off against new and terrifying monsters…all while caring for her growing menagerie of extraordinary critters. 
With over 300 five-star reviews, see why readers are calling Hell Hounds Don’t Heel over-the-top fun in a fresh new world full of magic, monsters and love. 
Hell Hounds Don’t Heel is the third book in the Valkyrie Bestiary Series. Paranormal suspense with heart.

Hell Hounds Don't Heel: A Paranormal Suspense Novel with a Touch of Romance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Dervishes Don't Dance: A Paranormal Suspense Novel with a Touch of Romance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Grimalkins Don't Purr: A Paranormal Suspense Novel with a Touch of Romance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Kyra Greene is out of this world—literally. Jacoby, her fire dervish, has been lost in the Nether for weeks. Only Kyra can find him but not without help from her estranged father. There’s only one snag in that plan. Daddy is dead. 
To save Jacoby, Kyra will travel between worlds with her band of misfit creatures. And this time, she won’t be facing ghosts from Mason’s past. She’ll be going head to head with the distant dryad branch of her family and maybe digging up a few ghosts of her own.

Kyra Greene is out of this world—literally. Jacoby, her fire dervish, has been lost in the Nether for weeks. Only Kyra can find him but not without help from her estranged father. There’s only one snag in that plan. Daddy is dead. 
To save Jacoby, Kyra will travel between worlds with her band of misfit creatures. And this time, she won’t be facing ghosts from Mason’s past. She’ll be going head to head with the distant dryad branch of her family and maybe digging up a few ghosts of her own.Grimalkins Don’t Purr is the fourth book in the Valkyrie Bestiary Series.

Kelpies Don't Fly: A Paranormal Suspense Novel with a Touch of Romance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Critter wrangler rule #15: Always look a gift horse in the mouth. And if it has sharp teeth, never, never get on its back.\nFor ten years, Kyra Greene thought she was the only Valkyrie this side of the rainbow bridge. Until she gets a stunning message from her cousin, Gunora, asking for bail money.\nBut facing the ghosts of her past isn’t on Kyra’s to-do list. All she wants is to settle into her new home with Mason and her menagerie of furred, feathered and scaled rescues. But the many gods of Terra have other plans.\nGunora’s plea for help sets a new Inbetween adventure in motion. Kyra and her crew will find themselves on the wrong side of the law and going to war with a herd of murderous kelpies. But this time, Kyra might finally set past wrongs to right. 
Kelpies Don’t Fly is book 5 of the Valkyrie Bestiary Series.

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Revise to Write: Edit Your Novel, Get Published and Become a Better Writer

Revise to Write: Edit Your Novel, Get Published and Become a Better Writer

Dervishes Don't Dance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Hell Hounds Don't Heel (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Dragons Don't Eat Meat (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Hell Hounds Don't Heel: A Paranormal Suspense Novel with a Touch of Romance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Dervishes Don't Dance: A Paranormal Suspense Novel with a Touch of Romance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Grimalkins Don't Purr: A Paranormal Suspense Novel with a Touch of Romance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Grimalkins Don't Purr: A Paranormal Suspense Novel with a Touch of Romance (Valkyrie Bestiary)

Kelpies Don't Fly: A Paranormal Suspense Novel with a Touch of Romance (Valkyrie Bestiary)