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 [...] 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 [...] I’ve worked with a number of writers over the years, and all have been desperately eager to get into print, and the younger they were, the more desperate they were. The very youngest believed they were ready—“right now, right this minute”—to be published. Hearing that they were not ready, or that their writing needed 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 [...] | 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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