Author Tools

Hello, My Writing Colleague,

There are lots of choices out there for tools that can speed up and help your writer’s journey. The tools listed below are the ones I have used and personally recommend for writing, editing, and self-publishing. They are in no particular order. Click on the individual tabs in the drop-down menu to see each of these in greater detail.

• Microsoft Word/Office: A widely excepted word processor
• New Novelist: Where you can write and organize all your notes in one spot
• Grammarly: A self-editing software
• The Hemingway App: Checks the grade level, adverbs, wordiness, and passive voice of your writing
• The Kindle Kid’s Book Creator: Build your book inside it, and it will format it to Kindle
• PublishXpress: Converts .docx and more to ePub and Mobi files
• Sigil: ePub editing software
• Photoshop: Authors can best use this for photo dpi conversion

If you have any questions, feel free to ask and email me at melissa@essentialsforwriters. com.

Carry on, My Writing Colleague. You got this!