Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors

During this hour with Marnie and special guest, Kathy Ide, you'll discover...

• The secrets of proofreading your manuscripts for typos and other errors
• The industry-standard reference guides for punctuation, usage, grammar, and spelling
• The differences between punctuation rules for books, articles, and magazines
• Reasons it’s important to carefully proofread everything you send out (including e-mails)
• The most common punctuation errors writers make
• Commonly misused words
• The funniest type of grammar mistake
• Commonly misspelled words—not the ones you’d think!

Kathy Ide, author of Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors and editor/compiler of the Fiction Lover’s Devotional series, is a full-time freelance editor/writing mentor, working with new writers, established authors, and book publishers. For more about Kathy, visit www.KathyIde.com.