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Publishing


Why I Don't Use AI in My Editing Practice
Do I use AI? Sure. For lots of stuff. But publishing is too important to me to jeopardize quality or, worse, copyright, with generative AI. That's why I do all my writing myself and all my editing myself.
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Catherine Forrest
Jun 215 min read


Lock in to point-of-view (and eliminate head-hopping for good)
You can write a whole novel in first person and still violate POV if your narrator knows something they couldn’t possibly know. You can write in omniscient third and still fail if you head-hop without purpose. That’s why I made The POV Lock.
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Catherine Forrest
May 205 min read


Why a printable on Etsy instead of a book on Amazon?
The flexibility is the value signal. Not the binding. You wondered: Aren’t you selling something less valuable by selling it as a PDF? No. I’m selling something more usable. More reusable. More flexible.
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Catherine Forrest
May 184 min read


When your beta readers are doing their best (but you need better feedback)
If you’ve been frustrated by the beta reading process, if you’ve gotten vague feedback—or no feedback at all—and wanted a solution, I made this for you.
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Catherine Forrest
May 134 min read


You Can’t Optimize Your Way Out of Bad Inputs (But You Can Fix Them Upstream)
Authors aren’t an external variable. They’re our front end. Optimize upstream or keep paying for it downstream.
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Catherine Forrest
May 14 min read
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