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Author Spotlight: Katherine Clavaton
In a literary landscape often dominated by talk of brand, platform, and marketability, Katherine Clavaton offers something rarer: a voice that is unafraid of its own darkness, dressed in red lipstick, and ready to surprise you.
LSO
3 days ago4 min read
Vykas: Your Femme Fatale
Meet Vykas, one of the winning authors during our “Make it Bitter or Make it Better” Writing Challenge. Get to know her beyond the stories she creates in this author spotlight feature.
Chona
5 days ago4 min read
What Is Line Editing and Do I Need It?
Finishing a manuscript is a major milestone, but completing the draft and preparing it for readers are not always the same thing.
Yassie
May 154 min read
Your Manuscript Needs More Than Spellcheck
Spellcheck can catch basic spelling mistakes, but it cannot fully edit a manuscript. It often misses issues involving clarity, tone, sentence flow, consistency, context, and readability. Professional editing addresses the deeper problems that automated tools cannot reliably detect.
Yassie
May 83 min read
Dialogue Tags: Action vs. Speaker
Dialogue tags can make or break your fiction. TME teaches you when to use action beats versus speaker tags, why the difference matters more than you think, and how mastering this one skill instantly elevates the pace and clarity of your writing.
LSO
Apr 263 min read
If I Was vs. If I Were: Subjunctive Mood: The Ghost in the Grammar Machine
Think "If I was" and "If I were" are interchangeable? Think again. TME cracks open the subjunctive mood, explains why it haunts your writing, and shows you exactly when to use each one with a fiction example that makes it click.
LSO
Apr 242 min read
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