Michael Huber, proprietor of the Millionth Monkey editing service, has written a guest column for RedRoom.com, the website of novelist Sherry Parnell.  Here’s the link: http://redroom.com/member/sherry-parnell/blog/millionth-monkey-guest-post

I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters,” Saunders wrote in an essay on Vonnegut. “He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what’s inside the box bears some linear resemblance to ‘real life’ — he can put whatever [...]

Millionth Monkey (http://www.millionthmonkey.net) highly recommends this essay on novel writing by Chuck Palahniuk. http://chuckpalahniuk.net/workshop/essays/chuck-palahniuk

Below are examples of the editing and proofreading projects that Millionth Monkey undertakes. The list isn’t meant to be exhaustive. If you can write it, we can edit and proofread it.   For authors & publishers: Book/ebook manuscripts Article and essay manuscripts Galleys and page proofs Book/ebook query letters   For scholars: Doctoral dissertations Master’s [...]

The Millionth Monkey editing service is owned and operated by Michael Huber, who has been an editor and staff writer at The Chicago Sun-Times, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal and The Miami Herald. Michael also has experience as an educator. He was a journalism professor and associate director of the Knight Foundation’s Project for Writing in Journalism. [...]

“The First Tier Man – He Rarely Gets Laid” By Shawn Schepps   You’re a First Tier Man. You and your buddy are going out for the night. Hit a club. Hit a bar. Find a chick and get your groove on. Drink a little, talk a little and get laid.  You’ve got your game [...]

I took my dog to puppy class the other morning. He’s a fast learner. I didn’t get much sleep that night, I was on the internet until four in the morning chatting with some guy who said he worked on Wall Street in New York, was 33 and wanted to trade pics. Pics to those [...]

AMERICA by Shawn Schepps              Moscow airport.  VIP Lounge.  Fall.  2010.   I am exhausted.  My hair needs washing.  I eat caviar and wash it down with a Diet Coke.  Barbaric. Russian business men in designer suits read the paper and keep to themselves. There are no plaid Bermuda shorts here. [...]