Month: August 2014

Hired Guns: Paying Someone To Research Your Book

Does it help or hinder your book to hire someone else to do the research? That’s the question of the day. Some editing businesses offer to do writers’ research for them – for a fee, of course. While it may sound good to save yourself all that research time, is it...

Writing Groups Are Great, But…

Writing groups are great – there’s nothing better than spending time with people who have the same desire to write as you do and understand the writing life. Everyone brings something new to the table, whether it’s an opinion, something they learned in a class or at a...

Can Writing Courses Kill Your Writing Career?

by Anita Stratos, Proof Positive editor It sounds counterintuitive, doesn’t it? Writing courses are supposed to help build your writing career with insights into style, content, character development, and all the other things needed for a good novel. They also offer a...

Why Freelance Writing is Your Creative Writing Inspiration

by Anita Stratos, Proof Positive editor One thing I’ve noticed about the writing world – it likes to separate itself into groups. I’m not talking about genres. Two of the main groups I’ve noticed are “Writing for Hire” and “Creative Writing”, and members of each can...

Meet Author TC Michael

Author TC Michael describes himself as being "an epic daydreamer with a wild imagination", and nothing could better prove this description than his first full-length novel, Secret of the Last Born. The first in the Dark Rising series, Michael mixes common fables and...

He’s the grumpiest guardian angel a girl could ask for.

"For heaven's sake, Blackwood. Step out of the shadows. The girl deserves to know who has been saving her." — The...

Angel Sinclair doesn’t save women. He owns them.

Promise I haven’t spoken in a year.The last words I said out loud…They were a PROMISE to my mother as she lay dying in...

Should nicknames be capitalized?

Nickname capitalization is a permanent topic of debate. To lowercase or to capitalize, that is the question. Chicago...

The chance of a lifetime, a dream trip…and the K-pop idol who could ruin her

Sara is thirty-two, a post-doc researcher in Turin, Italy, and thoroughly done with a career that keeps her name off...

What happens when home is where your broken heart is?

Minhwa swore he would never go back. Not to the town that shattered his heart. But life had other plans. Now part of...

Proof Positive’s Anniversary – 13 Years of Editing!

We're celebrating 13 years in business today! That's 13 years meticulously editing and thoroughly enjoying all kinds...

Bonnie Hardy’s debut historical mystery, An Unsuitable Job, wins three awards

Congratulations to Bonnie Hardy on the awards she earned for her latest release, An Unsuitable Job! Her awards...

Book Launch: When enemies become friends, those you trusted must be killed

Imprisoned by Xavier Delgado and betrayed by the rival she swore never to love, Isa Morales has lost everything—her...

An original, suspenseful thriller filled with obsession, psychological drama, and medical malice

Is blood really thicker than water? Something is terribly wrong at Angiras, a family-owned medical start-up. Neddy...

Book Launch: When revenge calls, she answers with vengeance

The past won't let her go. Samantha has escaped an abusive marriage, and finally left the dark secrets from her youth...