Advice and Help from BU Authors

Promotion on Television
Rita Toews, author of children's book CHRISTMAS STARS and the detective novel MASQUERADE, describes her success in landing and participating in a television interview to promote e-books. She encourages other e-book authors to follow in her footsteps and gives valuable advice.

A Television Interview By Rita Toews
http://www.booksunbound.com/resources/article2.html


Verb Tenses
Joseph E. Wright, author of murder mystery THE BODIES OUT BACK, has written an interesting and entertaining article on how to use verb tenses. If you follow his advice, your readers will savor your prose without wondering where you are in the timeline of your story.

Don't Be Tense By Joseph E. Wright
http://www.booksunbound.com/resources/article1.html

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Writing Resources and Advice
There are many good resources available to help writers improve their knowledge and skills. We would like to bring the following to your attention:

Useful Links for Authors By Michael LaRocca
http://freereads.topcities.com/usefullinksforauthors.html

Our editor gives dozens of links to useful sites for authors. Use these to look up a quote, find a word, check your grammar and much more.

Turkey City Lexicon
http://www.icomm.ca/onspec/lexicon.htm

This lexicon for critiquing SF manuscripts can help you see what to avoid and what to embrace in any genre.

Doyle Wilmoth's SpecFicWorld
www.specficworld.com

SpecFicWorld.com is an online resource guide for speculative fiction fans and writers. Inside you'll find thousands of helpful links to several publications and resources from around the globe.

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Writing Specimen
http://booksunbound.com/resources/specimen.html

Books Unbound dissects a poorly written piece, sentence by sentence. We recommend you avoid writing like this.

Writing Topics
http://booksunbound.com/resources/topics.html

Books Unbound gives guidance on commas, hyphenation, passive voice and more. Many of the errors in the Writing Specimen are covered here.