Author-Blogger Jacquelyn Lynn Reviews "Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers"

• Title: Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers (Second Edition)
• Subtitle: The Ultimate Frugal Booklet for Avoiding Word Trippers 
•       and Crafting Gatekeeper Perfect Copy
• Author: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
• Publisher: Modern History Press
• Pages: 42
• ISBN: 9781615995240
• Available on Amazon in Paperback, Ebook, Hardcover

Reviewed by Jacquelyn Lynn 

This skinny book is fat with great information for all writers—whether writing is your full-time job or a part of your professional responsibilities.

Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers is an addition to Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s earlier book, The Frugal Editor. The core of this little book is a list of what Howard-Johnson calls “Trip-You-Up Words”—those errors that creep into our writing either because we typed them wrong but spellchecker didn’t catch it, or we didn’t know we were making a mistake.

What makes the book a fun read is Howard-Johnson’s style. This isn’t a dry glossary of definitions; it’s a conversation with an editor who genuinely wants your work—whether it’s a novel destined for the bestseller lists or an email to your mom—to be accurate and clear. In addition to explaining what the words that tend to trip us up mean, Howard-Johnson offers practical tips for testing yourself if you’re not sure you’re using the right word.

While the target audience for Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers is writers who are pitching their manuscripts to editors (which explains the mention of gatekeeper in the subtitle), anyone (including self-publishers, staff writers, and anyone who appreciates correct word usage) can use the information in this book. Get a copy for yourself and as a gift for the other writers in your life.

MORE ABOUT Jacquelyn Lynn

Jacquelyn Lynn is an inspirational author, business writer, and ghostwriter whose credits include more than 40 books, 3,000+ magazine articles, ebooks, blogs, white papers, and more. She is also a self-publishing consultant.

Jacquelyn the author of the novel Choices (A Joyful Cup Story) as well as the nonfiction books Words to Work By: 31 devotions for the workplace based on the Book of Proverbs and Finding Joy in the Morning: You can make it through the night.She also wrote The Simple Facts for Self Publishing. With her husband, she is the co-creator of several coloring books for adults.