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Welcome to Two Brothers Press
We are a prepress editorial group serving new writers  
About • Submissions • Contact • Prepress Services • Evaluations • Pricing
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Serious links for writers...

Preditors and Editors: A list of publishers and publishing services for serious writers. (Where appropriate, this site also posts warnings about agents, publishers, and editors.)

Algonkian Novel Workshops

Agent Query/Publisher List (claims to be "the internet's largest and most current database of literary agents")

American Publishers (list) No longer viable link

Print-on-Demand and Ebook Producers (list)

Litline: a website for the independent literary community

The editors at TBP would like to have you sign our guest book. Please let us know what services you are interested in and why you visited this site. Or tell us about your writing/publishing goals.
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Our Four-Step Editing Services Program
  1. Submit your manuscript via email (see submissions guidelines)
  2. We will edit the first 10 or more pages free to give you an idea of the depth of editing your manuscript needs (see evaluations) and then return the manuscript via email for your consideration.
  3. If you decide to hire Two Brothers Press to complete the editing on your manuscript, you simply send an email requesting a complete edit.
  4. We will send you the payment processing link at that time based upon the word count of your manuscript. Once we have received payment we will automatically edit your manuscript and return it to you within two to four weeks, depending upon its word count. See the Pricing for the breakdown of costs.
Our Typesetting/Cover Design Services

We also offer typesetting and cover design services. If you are "self-publishing" your book, which means sending it to your own chosen printer or sending it to one of the print-on-demand (POD) companies that allow authors to submit fully formatted, .pdf-ready files, Two Brothers Press can handle your needs. Please see Prepress Services for a more detailed explanation of this service.

If you know of a writer who might benefit from good copy editing, just click on the button and send an email about this site.

The Power of Punctuation


Many new writers and even some who are experienced often fail to grasp how a few simple commas or other marks of punctuation in the wrong place (or lack thereof) can change the entire meaning of a sentence. To demonstrate the power of punctuation to change meaning, study the three examples below. None of the words have been changed—except by punctuation marks.
Hide the cows outside.
Hide! The cow's outside.
Hide, the cow's outside.

Can you guess the meaning of each of these sentences? (Hint: the third  example is not a sentence, really, unless it's in response to a question.) They are all completely different, and all that was necessary to completely change their meaning was to play with punctuation.

If you can't reason out three different meanings, then maybe you will be interested in what Two Brothers Press has to offer.

Here are the meanings:

Conceal the cows.
Conceal yourself.
Where does leather comes from?

Punctuation Quick List

A Useful Reminder of How to Use Punctuation
Period
End mark of sentence.
Used in abbreviations, but usually not acronyms.

Comma
Divides elements in dates and addresses.
Separates phrases in a sentence when not doing so can cause confusion.
In pairs, sets off parenthetical expressions, as when renaming a noun.
My father, Cliff, lived to be 83.
Divides list items within a sentence.
Used in series of short clauses.
John went north, Jerry went south, and I went west.

Apostrophe
Does NOT form plurals—except rarely (as in the case of "dot all the i's and cross all the t's" where the acronym or abbreviation is a single letter).
Shows possessive noun.
Shows a contraction of two words.
I'd (I had) he's (he is) can't (can not), etc.

Semicolon
Divides two independent clauses where the two clauses are closely related.
Divides two clauses where a relational word is used: We went to the store; however, we didn't need to go.
Is NOT a substitute for a period.
Is NOT a substitute for a colon.
Does not occur at the beginning of a list.
Divides list items from one another when there are commas within a list item.

Colon
Used to set up an extensive list, following a clause. "The rules governing this body are as follows:"
Used sparingly.

Parentheses
Always comes in pairs: (...) within text to add information within a sentence, but can be used to set off numbered items (generally the closing parenthesis): 1), 2), 3), etc.

Quotation marks
Comes in pairs to set off speech or set off a unique word or phrase. Use double quotation marks, unless there is a quote within a quote. Use single quotation marks inside double quotation marks : "...'...'..."

Hyphen
Used between words in a compound adjective that modify a noun, but not used in a compound noun.
Is not used as a dash, although two hyphens together are sometimes used as a dash.

 Dash
Often used in pairs—like this—to set off an interrupting thought within the flow of a sentence.
Used sparingly.
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Books by
Two Brothers Press
Finding
by Andrew Barriger
Amazon

Early
The Early Journals of Will Barnett
by Ronald L. Donaghe
Amazon

Gathering
Amazon

Cinatis
by Ronald L. Donaghe
Amazon

Plans are in the works to expand the select authors of Two Brothers Press. Watch the Submissions page of this site for announcements. Currently writers can turn to us for full copyediting, industry-standard typesetting, and book cover design.