Tips to Improve Your Proofreading - Part 1

Once settled on a process that picks up spelling and grammar errors easily, concentrate on their proofreading speed. Often authors find themselves consistently misspelling the same words or repeating the same consecutively making a sentence seem boring and bland. Repeated misspellings come from a mental block or the word is not well known, they...

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Xlibris Book Review: The Cloak of Deception

The Cloak of Deception ''Memoirs of a Rural Undercover Cop'' Written by: Darryl Parker Published by: Xlibris LLC Date published: 06/08/2009 Edition: Casebound Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-43633-302-3 Available in Hardcover Review: The Cloak of Deception is written to provide insight into the criminal justice system as it relates...

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Xlibris Book Review: The Quicksilver

Michael C. Madden. The Quicksilver. Bloomington: Xlibris Publishing, ISBN 978-1-46530-018-8. 2011. Perfect Bound Softcover. Overview: It wasn't supposed to be like this. This is all too real... time travel is real - irreversible! You can go forward, but you can never go back! We should have listened to him... what have we done??...the deepest...

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How to Edit Great Books

We at Xlibris Publishing believe that one of the most widespread errors that aspiring authors and, indeed experienced writers commit in writing is to try to edit their book as they are writing it.. So instead of getting your great masterpiece out and on paper you tend to get bogged down in the minutiae of editing. The general consensus amongst...

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Xlibris Book Review: Nothing is Strange with You

James Jeffrey Paul. Nothing is Strange with You. Bloomington: Xlibris Publishing, ISBN 978-1-43636-626-7. 2008. Perfect Bound Softcover. Overview: A young man kidnaps his own nephew and makes him his servant and sex slave. He abducts young boys, has his way with them, and, if they "know too much," kills them. He forces his nephew to participate...

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Xlibris Book Review: Eclectic Poems From The Soul

Jerry L. Robinson. Eclectic Poems From The Soul. Bloomington: Xlibris Publishing, ISBN 978-1-46532-102-2. 2009. E-Book. Overview: Eclectic Poems From The Soul is my journey through many conflicting situations in broken relationships, trust, depression and fully understanding my hurts and the hurting of others through forgiveness. Getting...

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