A J Hartley
A few weeks ago I was speaking to a Sisters in Crime meeting and I realized that my mini autobiography had morphed into a series of bullets that might be titled Don’t Do This: A writer’s Guide to Decades of Failure. As some of you will know, mine was a long road to getting published, [...]
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  Loading ...Find or Become a Beta Reader      | [Note: By this afternoon I'll be on a plane to the UK so I won't be able to respond to comments after noon Eastern. I'll do my best to jump back into the conversation later in the weekend.] Stephen King has said that most readers have a moment early in life when they throw a book [...] Never write in second person. Always start with a powerful first line. Never change POVs in the middle of a scene. Eschew adjectives. And adverbs. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah… Magical Words is a blog devoted to helping people write better, and there’s a lot of great advice to be found here. And it’s all negotiable. Seriously. There isn’t a [...] I was at an academic conference some years ago, hanging out at the bar with a bunch of colleagues and editors, when I mentioned that I wrote creative as well as scholarly material. There was some mild interest, though most of it evaporated when I said that I wrote genre fiction, and by the time [...] [Note: I'm at Thrillerfest in New York right now, and it may take me time to respond to comments. I will, of course, get to them all eventually! Best, AJH] I was serving peas with dinner the other night, using a slotted spoon to get them out of the pan, and I had one of those [...] Recently, I had a few hours to kill and a bookstore nearby — a heavenly match. For awhile, I drifted along the racks, reading titles, looking at covers, enjoying the sensual aroma of so many books packed together. After some time, however, I started to look at it all with a critical eye, not just [...] | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our mobile site.If your mobile has a barcode reader, simply snap this bar code with the camera and launch the site. Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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