Elisa Lorello – Author Interview
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it.
ORDINARY WORLD is a sequel to my first novel, FAKING IT, and the story picks up five years later. Andi has the life she’s always wanted – she’s a tenured professor living in New England with her husband – but tragedy strikes and her [...]
George Eddy – Author Interview
Tell us a little about your latest book.
At the age of 89, I have just published my third book: A Romance Forever: The True Story of a Wartime Romance and 66 Amazing Years Together!. This memoir recounts my daring wartime courtship and adventuresome life with my beloved wife, Kay.
How did you know you wanted to [...]
Author Interview – Catherine McKenzie
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it.
Here’s a little bit about SPIN, my debut novel: Katie Sandford has just gotten an interview at her favourite music magazine, The Line. It’s the chance of a lifetime. So what does she do? Goes out to celebrate — and shows up still drunk [...]
Query Letter Writing Fact and Fiction
Fact: Query Letter Writing is an Art Form.
Make no mistake about it, writing queries that produce results is a craft.
Fact: A Query Should Not be Written Like a Synopsis.
I devoted an entire article to this, yet writers who have read the article continue to send me sample queries [...]
Coming up with a Great Opening for a Novel
Nothing is more critical than the first few lines of a story, since this will often influence whether or not a reader will continue with a work. And a great opening is never more important than for a non-established writer who is trying to garner an audience or the budding author who is trying to [...]
Troubled by Point of View? Particularly OMNI?
Ten times out of ten Omni doesn’t work and you’re left wondering why. “Omni is suppose to head-hop!” you cry.
Blogging a Novel
Sometimes, you just give in to peer pressure. I have always had the writing bug. However, I never pursued this endeavor until many family and friends said it is time to write a book. But, never really explored this “art” until October of 2008. That is when I started writing my novel, “Diary: Alone on [...]
How Authors Can Use Their Networks
Remember when networking was so popular there were networking groups everywhere you turned? I was living in Orange County, California, during those days and I belonged to networking organizations like Women In Management and breakfast clubs in which members gave each other job leads and I gave speeches on creativity to a dozen different kinds [...]
Write a Novel – The Difference Between Voice and Tone
One of the best ways to understand something is to provide different treatments of the subject. Thomas Mann’s eight stories in the popular Vintage imprint with DEATH IN VENICE as the lead title is ideal to work from, since each story is written in a different voice. Yet his masterpiece, THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, depicts [...]
Write a Novel – How to Get Published
To write a novel that will be appealing to a major royalty publisher involves more than just talent and hard work. It requires creating a plan from the outset and the discipline to follow it.
Everybody Has a Story Worth Telling
If you have begun reading this article, there’s a good possibility you have either been [...]
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