Self-Editing for Fiction Writers – How To Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne and Dave Ki

For several weeks, I have reported my trevails of editing The Alberta Connection, a Ryce Dalton novel, in The Book Reviewers Club.  In those weeks, I have discovered new and wonderful things about writing.  Number 1 on the list is: Show, Don’t Tell.  Number 2 on the list is:  How?

I recently visited my local library.  I had not been to a library in three or four years.  And, I didn’t have a library card….until now.

The book I checked out is:  Self-Editing For Fiction Writers, or How to edit yourself into print.

It is not a large book, only 234 pages.  I am about a third of the way through.  Much of what I am reading has been available in bits and pieces in various articles I have found on the Internet, and have posted on The Book Reviewers Club blog.  However, the new information from Sefl-Editing for Fiction Writers ties a lot of the Internet info together, and adds examples which were not available in articles I quoted.

My best recommendation at this point is to go to your local library, and check the book out.  Or purchase it on Amazon.  When you have read it, please send me an email, and let me and the readers of The Book Reviewers Club blog know what you thought about the book.  I plan to review the book when I finish reading it.  More important, though, my ability to write should illustrate what I have learned.