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What does an editor do?

June 7, 2017 by Jeff Haws 2 Comments

Been a busy month or so. Spent two weeks wandering around Europe, and worked through the beta-reader edits on my next novel. Just sent it off to my professional editor yesterday, and that means we may see a final product around the beginning of August. You guys may get your hands on this book yet.

Just as I did shove my book out of its protective little nest, I ran across this terrific breakdown of how to pick an editor from the endlessly helpful Shayla from Curiouser Editing. It really goes into detail on what an author needs to be thinking about as he makes the fateful decision on who will be his manuscript’s bridge from being a crappy rough draft no one should have to read to being a publishable book that people might actually pay money for. [Read more…] about What does an editor do?

Filed Under: Blog, Editing, Process Tagged With: editing, grammar, novel, Personal

Cover Reveal and Other Updates

October 2, 2016 by Jeff Haws Leave a Comment

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Welcome to the new jeffhaws.com! Hope you’re liking what you see so far. It’s a pretty big change from the old site, for those of you who enjoyed wandering around there. This layout should give you a much better visual experience than the previous one, and this site should also be more secure. Gone is the “Just Write Somehow” header (which I thought was more to the point when I was working toward getting a book out than it is now that I have one … and will soon have another), and the focus is more on my published work. [Read more…] about Cover Reveal and Other Updates

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amazon, book cover, Kindle, Personal, updates

Speaking at the Decatur Book Festival

March 29, 2016 by Jeff Haws Leave a Comment

Decatur Book Festival

For those of you who have been to the Decatur Book Festival, you know it’s basically Shangri-La for book lovers. It’s one of the best such festivals in the country, and it’s arguably the best when it comes to giving young and self-published authors a chance to get exposure for their work.

On that note, I’d like to announce that I’ll be speaking at this year’s festival, in the Emerging Writers tent, and I’ll also be doing a book signing for “Killing the Immortals,” my first novel. My speaking/signing spots will be either Sept. 3 or 4. I’ll provide an update on that when I know more, but I got it fairly early, so hopefully it’ll come that Saturday morning. I’m not going to be picky, though. [Read more…] about Speaking at the Decatur Book Festival

Filed Under: Blog, Personal, Selling, Updates Tagged With: Appearances, Decatur Book Festival, Events, Personal, Speaking, updates

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