Rather than do a long post this week, I’m going to send you all to a bunch of other web sites. Because it’s Banned Books Week in the U.S., and I don’t want to try to condense all this stuff into a single thousand-word essay. It’s too
Read more →E. Beck asked about tips on revising a manuscript with multiple problems Revising a manuscript is one of those things that most writers find either relatively easy, or almost impossible. It really depends on the writer…and on when and why the writer wants to fix the manuscript.
Read more →Mary Kuhner asked: When you’re writing a short intro for a query letter, how far into the plot do you normally go? It depends on the book and what the submission directions say. What the particular publisher says in their submission directions always trumps any and every
Read more →Once again it is open mike time! And back to school week, too. How has everyone’s end-of-summer been? What are you working on? What do you need or want to know?
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