If you want to write something with a better-than-average chance of selling, you can do worse than take a stab at the horror genre. Today’s readers really, really like to be scared. In the past twenty years, more horror novels have been published than in the previous 650 years since the invention of the printing […]
It seems to us that a good relationship between author and writer is critical to writing a good how-to book. Why would readers follow advice in a book if they did not feel like they liked and trusted the author? If you want to write such a book, it is a good idea to be […]
This past holiday weekend, we stopped for a night in very-historic Burlington, New Jersey. The list of notables who have darkened various doors in Burlington include Ulysses S. Grant, whose family spent the war in Burlington; Benjamin Franklin, whose son was the last NJ royal governor; and James Fenimore Cooper, who was born there. While […]
“The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.” -THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX by Kate DiCamillo If you are going to address your story to a “dear reader” as DiCamillo does in the quote from her award-winning children’s book above, you […]