Today's Tips: Sharpen Those Proofreading Skills, Expand Your Readership, and More...

• Like a lot of wordsmiths, Grammar Girl host Mignon Fogarty recommends always getting a second set of eyes to proof your copy. But If you can't wrangle that, she has some creative suggestions for making do on your own: try reading your copy backwards, out loud, and from a piece of paper

• Copyblogger lights the way to expanding your internet universe. First step: click through a commenter's website -- you may just meet your fourth-degree network 

• Publishing and intellectual property attorney Lloyd Jassin urges co-authors to always sign a contract outlining the biggies: cash, control, and author credit 

• Men with Pens offers ways to help you find a writing voice, from trying on personas to writing a letter to a friend