• Editing Software or Not: How Much Comes Down to Mechanics?

    by Jennifer Frost

    A manuscript tarnished by typos, missed words, and formatting errors, doesn’t stack up well. It faces stiff competition from authors who have gone the extra mile polishing their pieces.

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  • By the Iowa Sea by Joe Blair

    by Jennifer Frost

    Beyond his blunt and scorching truth telling, Blair has an ability to transform the banal. A butterfly caught beneath a windshield wiper offers an opportunity to recollect and interpret events from a deep personal past

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  • Who Am I to Judge?

    by Jennifer Frost

    The gray area comes in when I’m asked to read unfinished work. Riddled with mechanical mistakes and muddled in its narrative, a book like this poses a genuine problem.

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  • April Reads

    by Jennifer Frost

    Follow Jennifer Frost Writes on WordPress.com Cooking For Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme, the First Celebrity Chef by Ian Kelly A biographical cookbook, Cooking for Kings presents scenes of daily life in royal Regency kitchens from the firing of the coal ovens before dawn to the spinning of breathtaking sugar creations for elaborate feasts.…

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  • A Woman of Letters

    by Jennifer Frost

    For a writer, letter writing is not a lost art. In our letters, we practice our craft, learning how our words can touch, amuse, and gall our reader.

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