One of the quirky things about the first drafts of novels we see is that they are often full of characters, who start things and never seem to finish them. We are always reading about Character X, who “began to wash the dishes” or Character Y, “who began to close the windows.” There is often […]
Fiction or non-fiction, your goal as a writer should be to write in scenes, whole, round rooms that readers can step into and experience what is happening there. You have to build that room or place by establishing where it is and what it looks like, its smells, the feelings hanging in the air. Next, […]
When our authors go off to self-publish their ebooks, we sometimes feel as if we are releasing innocents to the world. Some of them have not even thought about promoting their books. And they must, because books don’t leap into bestsellerdom. They have to be promoted. This piece is aimed at ebook authors but it […]