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A guy the AKA (Gwen Hunter) knows, a lawyer who did some work for us back in the 1990s, asked me/us to read his book opening. Actually it was 16 pages of concept thrown onto the pages, single spaced, a lot for shock value. It read like a short story that needed a lot of [...]
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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, [...]
Make your readers expect great things right [...]
I had written an essay about expectations and their role in writing stories that I planned on posting today, but something happened that made me change my mind. NASFIC is this weekend, in Raleigh NC, and I was at a panel where an established writer started talking about cover letters. However, it quickly became clear from context [...]
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[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 [...]
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I’ve been working with some writers who have become friends. It’s really cool to have writers in my life: people who know the business and have been publishing books for years, people who are just getting into the professional side of the business, people who hope to get there some day. They all enrich my [...]