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Top Secret or Not: Sharing Your Writing with Others

Filed in Ask the Editor by Erika Bennett on January 21, 2015 • 0 Comments

There is a common writing stereotype doing more harm than good for the writing community. Writing is not, and should not be viewed as a solitary confinement type of punishment. The task of sitting down to write has been glorified as this painful and disparaging task that segregates the writer from the rest of their […]

Afraid to write your story? You are not alone.

Filed in Ask the Editor by Blair Townley on January 16, 2015 • 2 Comments

It’s a new year and time to make it a point this year to write your story: yet that pesky monster of rejection is always looming over your shoulder, convincing you (and other authors) that your stories aren’t worth sharing with others. Regularly, I come across manuscripts where authors say they have struggled with whether […]

Xulon’s Book Search Optimization / Metadata Service: Explained

Filed in Ask the Editor by Taylor Graham on November 26, 2014 • 1 Comment

Out of all the services that Xulon Press’s editorial department offers, there is no guessing which one is the most complicated to our authors. In fact, the average person probably doesn’t know what “metadata” or “search optimization” means. It probably sounds like a few technical terms that only a Google engineer could possibly understand, right? […]

Research Your Rhetoric: Generalizations and Citation

Filed in Ask the Editor by Krystina Murray on October 13, 2014 • 0 Comments

Generalizations are a common aspect of rhetorical communication, as it creates a common ground in conversation. In any area of education and entertainment, viewers/readers are subjected to generalizations, as they are easy to relate to and often contain a grain of truth. This post will briefly examine the pros and cons of generalizations/stereotypes and the […]

The Weight of the Exclamation Point

Filed in Ask the Editor by Taylor Graham on September 13, 2014 • 5 Comments

Since I started here as an editor at Xulon Press, nearly eight weeks ago, I have read at least one hundred manuscripts. Almost every manuscript I have edited and reviewed has been nonfiction. They have all been unique in their focus, voice, and message, but almost all of them have contained at least one “common […]