Erika Bennett

Erika Bennett is the Content Manager for Xulon Press. She has worked in the publishing industry for more than a decade and her passion is to make sure great books find their way into readers' hands. You can also find her writing on XulonPress.Substack.com.

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Portrait of Poet: Xulon Press Presents Heather Mavis Owen

Filed in From the Desk of... by Erika Bennett on April 16, 2013 • 0 Comments

Poetry is a feat not many can achieve. Only a true wordsmith is able to string together multiple lines of rhyming ends that read like a rhythmic melody in the reader’s ear. Writing poetry takes due diligence and patience because one must wait for the perfect words to come to mind, which is why, for […]

Ask the Editor: Comma Conundrums Part I…When to Use a Semicolon

Filed in Ask the Editor by Erika Bennett on April 4, 2013 • 0 Comments

Let me take you back to an 8th grade English class. The teacher is saying something about commas, semicolons and conjunctions. You’re pretty much lost, spacing out a bit or writing a note to your crush three seats back. Why is it so hard to remember punctuation rules? It’s probably because technical terms are not […]

Ask the Editor: How to Outline a Non-Fiction Book

Filed in Ask the Editor by Erika Bennett on March 7, 2013 • 11 Comments

If you asked me to list the three fears I picked up in high school English, they would be diagramming sentences, red ink and outlining. I’ve never gotten past my red ink complex, but I can now see the true value in outlining any writing project before touching fingers to the keyboard. Contractors don’t build […]

From the Desk of the Editorial Manager: My Path to Self-Publishing

Filed in From the Desk of... by Erika Bennett on February 20, 2013 • 2 Comments

My road to the self-publishing side of the book industry was a path I least expected. Besides the short-lived dream I had in middle school to become a meteorologist, I had always envisioned that I would work with books in some sense. Like most writers, I thought the only way to publishing was through a […]