I like to write with the reader in mind. I try to give them all the twists and turns and emotional turbulence one can from the plot and character interaction. I think a great novel always combine a strong plot with remarkable characters.
Gary Starta – 3 Nov 2012 Continue reading
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The reader is the target audience – if there’s something they don’t get, then the author has failed to get the message across to them. They are the author’s words, the author’s writing. Take the feedback, if it’s well intended, and do so graciously. – Paul Montgomery 27 Oct 2012 Continue reading
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That said, we did get to the stage where it was 2am on print day and I was sitting looking at the final draft at titles that said things like ‘witty heading’ and notes like ‘anecdote here’!
Katy Gilbert – 8 September 2012 Continue reading
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Don’t put your book out there without letting several (and I mean more than two) people read and critique it. Cover art is very important to a book’s success… look at other books in your target market. Thicken up your skin, you will be judged.
S.L. Baum – 1 September 2012 Continue reading
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I admired the writers I read about who did it all themselves, and when I concluded the whole agent route was “a scream into the void,” I became excited to see if I could manage it all myself.
Lindsay McFerrin Bates 2 August 2012 Continue reading
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I would say that reading lengthy works as a pastime is certainly diminishing, but I don’t think it will be ever be dead. Bookworms will always exist—and beget little bookworms of their own.
Anne Chacona 31 July 2012 Continue reading
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In 2009, I realized that because of the many marketing and PR jobs I held over the years, I had all of the computer, editing, writing and marketing skills necessary to launch a small press of my own, and that’s what I did. Mainly Murder Press is a traditional, royalty-paying publisher, not a vanity press. We now publish the work of nearly 30 talented writers.
Judith K. Iview 28 July 2012 Continue reading
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I’m constantly thinking about my stories, so I tend to scribble notes or scenes on anything I find.
Diana Murdock 26 July 2012 Continue reading
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