Wayne JonesWayne Jones

Wayne Jones is a writer, freelance editor, and podcaster in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. He has indie-published two biographies (the latest, My Sam Johnson, in September 2023), a mystery novel called The Killing Type, and a memoir of the relationship between minimalism and emotions called Less and Less. He hosts the podcast Newfoundland Boy, about the Canadian province he was born in but only returned to last year, after a thirty-plus-year career as an academic librarian in both Canada and the US. You can find him at WayneJones.ca.
How an Academic Editor Can Help a Scholar Write a Better Article
Image: a small, painted statuette of Albert Einstein
A good editor can help a scholar ensure that the complexity of what they are writing about is intelligently and ...
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Why I Prefer to Read Fiction without Lessons or Messages
Image: an abstract painting filled with large brushstrokes of red, orange, yellow, teal, blue, and purple.
As with abstract painting, fiction can find worth in technique rather than specific meaning—emphasizing not the What, but the How ...
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How Smaller Organisms Adapt to Amazon in the Self-Publishing Ecosystem
Image: On white paper is a simple drawing in permanent marker of a road forking into two paths. At the end of each path is a stack of coins, but one stack is twice as tall as the other.
An independent author wonders why two publishing services companies sell their clients’ books at different prices than Amazon ...
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/ Free, Guest Post, Self-Publishing