[by Shannon Roberts]
Initially I modeled my work after one of my (at the time) favorite bloggers and web-comic writers, Jerry Holkins. I started to fold in some Terry Pratchett and I sampled from […]
[Guest post by Rob MacCavett]
Now that my novel, Flaming Harry Sweeney, is self-published, I can offer a hearty congratulations to none other than myself—and more importantly, advice on “What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started” to you fellow travelers and aspiring authors. First off, do […]
[by John Robert Marlow]
Is your book a movie? Should it be? How do you get from here to there—and what’s in it for you? Fasten your seatbelt, and let’s rip through this…
Let’s face it: being an author is a noble profession, but reaching the financial pinnacle of our chosen profession requires more […]
[by Peter Gelfan]
Often we like to imagine the (probably imaginary) good old days when editors searched for traces of gold in the rough ore of a first draft and worked with the writer to refine it. Recently, an editor at a major publisher offered a less romantic glimpse […]
[by Peter Gelfan]
They want their made-up stories to be as close to truth as possible—sort of like vegetarian meat. If they have to pick between two gritty detective novels, one by an ex-cop and the other by an MFA who has always lived in the nice part of town, […]
Romance novels get a bad rap. They’re not taken seriously. Some of it (okay, most of it) has to do with the formula.
*This is not a real book.
The formulaic covers, titles, and premises. Covers featuring busty heroines embraced by bulgingly-muscled […]
