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Introduction, Preface, Author's Note, or Foreword: Determining the Right Front Matter for Your Book

Sep 20, 20232 min read

Introduction, Preface, Author's Note, or Foreword: Determining the Right Front Matter for Your Book

This week, the authors I'm collaborating with have consistently raised this topic, inspiring me to address it in a brief blog post today!...

Sharing My Most Trusted Writing and Editing Resources

Amma Twum-Baah

Mar 1, 20231 min read

WRITING & EDITING

Sharing My Most Trusted Writing and Editing Resources

Every serious editor (and writer) should have a Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and a copy of the most up-to-date Chicago Manual of Style on...

How Copy Editing Can Improve Your Content

Amma Edits, LLC

May 3, 20221 min read

WRITING & EDITING

How Copy Editing Can Improve Your Content

Copyediting focuses on all of those in addition to checking for grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.

How Does Line Editing Improve Your Book?

Amma Edits, LLC

May 3, 20221 min read

WRITING & EDITING

How Does Line Editing Improve Your Book?

The main goal of a line edit is to make sure that your words flow into beautiful sentences that flow into exquisite paragraphs...

How to Elevate Your Work Through Developmental Editing

Amma Edits, LLC

May 3, 20221 min read

WRITING & EDITING

How to Elevate Your Work Through Developmental Editing

Developmental editing is the most detailed, comprehensive, and thoughtful editing package offered by Amma Edits.

Amma Edits, LLC

May 3, 20221 min read

WRITING & EDITING

What is a First Chapter Critique?

This service is offered to help an author figure out if they'll successfully hook their readers in the first few pages of their novel.

5 Ways to Prepare for Your Editing Journey

Amma Edits, LLC

Nov 8, 20213 min read

WRITING & EDITING

5 Ways to Prepare for Your Editing Journey

Hello Writer, You've spent days and nights working tirelessly on your manuscript, and now you're nearing the end of your first draft and...

Amma Edits, LLC

Nov 3, 20213 min read

WRITING & EDITING

Book Editing in a Nutshell.

A developmental editor can help you in ways that will cut down on your frustrations and your moments of doubt and fear...

10 Tips on How to Properly Format Your Manuscript

Amma Twum-Baah

Oct 8, 20215 min read

WRITING & EDITING

10 Tips on How to Properly Format Your Manuscript

Editors love authors who submit a properly formatted manuscript because 1) it makes their work a little easier, 2) they can focus on the...

Amma Edits, LLC

Oct 7, 20213 min read

WRITING & EDITING

What is Copy Editing?

What is Copy Editing? Copy editing is another critical component when it comes to improving an author’s work. Every stage of the editing...

Amma Edits, LLC

Jul 26, 20214 min read

WRITING & EDITING

What is Line Editing?

What is Line Editing? Line editing is critical to improving an author’s work and is designed to elevate said work. While a developmental...

Amma Edits, LLC

Jul 8, 20214 min read

WRITING & EDITING

What is Developmental Editing?

What is Developmental Editing? Developmental editing is a critical phase in the editing of an author’s work designed to elevate said...

Awaken Your Writing This Spring: 5 Tips to Take Your Novel from Dull to Alive!

Amma Edits, LLC

Apr 28, 20212 min read

WRITING & EDITING

Awaken Your Writing This Spring: 5 Tips to Take Your Novel from Dull to Alive!

Finding a good book is like finding an imaginary friend from a faraway land where the streets are made of gold and the houses made of...

Amma Edits, LLC

Feb 15, 20212 min read

WRITING & EDITING

How to Find and Work with Beta Readers

You've just finished self-editing your manuscript and you believe you're ready for the next step, professional editing. But before you...

3 Writing Mistakes and How to Fix Them Before You Publish

Amma Edits, LLC

Jan 11, 20213 min read

WRITING & EDITING

3 Writing Mistakes and How to Fix Them Before You Publish

There are writing errors hidden within the pages of your manuscript that often take the eye of a professional to weed out, but there are...

Amma Twum-Baah

Jan 2, 20212 min read

WRITING & EDITING

Is Your Manuscript Ready for Editing?

You have toiled day and night working on your story and have finally arrived at a point where you feel ready to contact an editor. But is...

Cyndi Grace

Dec 30, 20202 min read

WRITING & EDITING

3 Tips for Writing During Anxious Times

The year 2020 was an abnormal year for certain. Our lives as we knew it before have forever been changed by what is now considered normal...

Sola Writing

Aug 19, 20202 min read

WRITING & EDITING

Your Writing Journey Is Like a Garden

We can look at our writing journey the way we see the plants in our garden.

Motherhood and Writing: It's All About the Lack of Sleep

Amma Edits, LLC

Aug 17, 20202 min read

WRITING & EDITING

Motherhood and Writing: It's All About the Lack of Sleep

If you love your sleep, you will find it very difficult to be a mother who writes.

3 Ways to Practice Effective Writing Habits

Amma Edits, LLC

Jul 10, 20202 min read

WRITING & EDITING

3 Ways to Practice Effective Writing Habits

As a mother who writes and edits, I can assure you that being a mother who writes is doable. Some of the famous writers we love are mothers.