Fix Your Damn Book!

Fix Your Damn Book! is a self-help manual for writers who have finished a manuscript - a novel, novella, short story, or serial - and who want to self-edit their work to a professional standard and get it on the market.

In this instructional and occasionally hilarious book, James Osiris Baldwin - an author and editor with over 8 years of experience as a freelance and staff editor - explains his technique for painlessly and successfully polishing your manuscript to a perfect glow.

Fix Your Damn Book! will guide you through:
- The seven essential components of successful editing
- Getting into the right headspace to edit your own work
- Objectively diagnosing problems in your manuscript
- The secrets of developmental editing and line editing
- Hacks for sharpening your story, character, and dialogue
- Grammar, spelling, punctuation, passive voice and tense
- Recruiting and making the most out of your first readers
- Proofreading and publishing your finished book