
The N.HARV Blog
The Best Advice for First-Time Authors
Writing a book can be overwhelming, especially if you’re taking on this big feat for the first time. You have to think about the chapter title. The cleverness of words. The word count. The book design. The book editing. The publishing process. The marketing. The sales. Whew!
The Most Important Skill I've Learned While Traveling
I’m sure my opinions will build as I continue to travel, but as it stands, this is what I’ve observed while exploring Africa, Asia, Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean, and domestic cities and states in between. Also, let me state that I am a U.S. citizen who's lived overseas in South Korea in 2012, so a lot of my rhetoric comes from that experience…
I Was Mentioned in The New York Times
December 10, 2018 will be another date that I’ll remember forever. This is the day that I was mentioned in one of America’s largest publications, The New York Times. The article is titled..
4 Things Good Writers Do to Edit
After writing and publishing books for over five years, I feel like I have useful tips and hacks to help new writers have professional-looking work whether they write a book or not.
The 4 Different Types of Book Editing
At the top of the year, I said that 2018 is the year of the writer (specifically, the author). It is now the end of April and I still believe that. But you know what I realized? I encouraged aspiring..
3 Things I Learned From My Most Recent Book Signing
It’s been a few weeks since the overwhelm of my latest book release, Look Better In Writing: A Quick & Easy Guide to Capitalization (Vol.2). Now that I have a fresh mind to..
Why the Black Panther Movie Inspired Me to Write
The Black Panther movie is expected to generate about $200 million this weekend. Aside from the projected monetary success, the critically-acclaimed reviews will put..
3 Easy Capitalization Rules
We all know the basic capitalization rules like capitalize the first word of a sentence. But there are a few more common rules for capitalization that I'd like to bring to your attention.
1. Capitalize Proper Nouns
A proper noun is the name of noun (a person, place, thing, or idea). More specifically, a "proper noun has two distinctive features: 1) it will name a specific [usually a one-of-a-kind] item, and 2) it will begin with a capital letter no matter where it occurs in a sentence. For example…