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Feedback on your novel: A closer look
Feedback on your fiction is, on the surface of it, a sensible thing. You’re writing for readers, and people reading your draft and giving...
May 30, 2020


Keeping Track of Series
The novel being constructed. Here I go again, getting all organized about things. Writing things, that is. But even for you...
Apr 5, 2020


15 Joyful Things
Anyone else been waking up at 3 o’clock in the morning lately? There’s a lot to worry about with so many people going through heavy cares...
Mar 23, 2020


Nest of the Monarch in paper
In trade paper January 14. Also in eBook & hardcover. A top ten fantasy read of 2019. —Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist “Riveting.” — Publishers...
Jan 12, 2020


The wandering novel
A novel is complex, if only because it’s so long. It can so easily wander off course, fall into episodic events and feel scattered. To...
Jan 6, 2020


Character in a nutshell
Our major characters are usually so deep we need a whole novel to flesh them out. But haven’t we chosen a character because she or he...
Nov 14, 2019
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