Honestly, we don’t like flashbacks in books. We find it annoying to be reading along, caught up in some plot strand, then to be tossed back into the past somewhere and asked to be interested in whatever was going on back then. Flashbacks interrupt the story. They put authors, who use them, at a disadvantage. […]

We have been editing a book in which the author has taken great pains to give the hero a sense of humor. Unfortunately, the things he finds funny are so shocking that every time we read one of them, we have to stop and ask ourselves, “This is the hero of this book? Are we […]