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Conversation with Editors!

Join Yvonne Perry and Carolyn Howard-Johnson on January 13 for "Conversation with Editors." Yvonne has a full service editing business and Carolyn is an editor and author of The Frugal Editor.

Ask your questions in the comments feature below this post or at http://yvonneperry.blogspot.com/2008/11/conversation-with-editors.html, and then sign up for the call here...

You do want to know how to impress agents and publishers with your query letters don't you?

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Comment by Yvonne Perry on January 14, 2009 at 10:16am: Below is the link to Conversation with Editors Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Yvonne Perry, which covers some of the common mistakes writers make and how to correct them. We have also provided helpful tips for impressing a publisher with your query letter.

Here is the link to the recording:
http://yvonneperry.blogspot.com

Carolyn is an editor and author of The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward To Avoid Humiliation And Ensure Success (How to Do It Frugally). Yvonne is a full-time freelance ghostwriter and editor, and the owner of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services.

Here are some of the things we addressed in the podcast:

• Writing title and header case
• Is a book titled or entitled?
• When to use all caps
• How many spaces between sentences?
• Serial Commas
• Writing for Decades
• Hyphenating
• Internet and Web site
• Using Em and En Dashes
• Overuse of That
• Writing Dialog
• Writing Numbers
• Insight on query letters and book proposals