Although the situation sounds bizarre and unlikely, there have been cases where published writers have plagiarized. I wouldn't straight out...
A lot of places ask for query letters with 5-10 sample pages and absolutely no attachments at all. Sample chapters must be pasted in body of...
For some reason, I've always though italics was depicted like this in a MSS _This is Italics_ But recently, I have read a lot of threads...
If you are writing children or young adult, think of how ebooks will isolate your target market. From what I know, kids these days in school are...
Personally, I can't stand reading 1st person novels (Twilight, Percy Jackson, The Hunger Games comes to mind). Unless a writer can pull it off...
Stephanie Meyers posted a playlist of what she listened to when she wrote the twilight series on her website.
What he should have done, if he wanted to share the responses of a query letter online was remove the agency's/agent's name. I do agree that it is...
How long have you put away the novel then come back to it for editing? For your first book, the editing process, in my opinion, should take 1+...
I had to change a character completely in my rewrite. I really didn't want to do it, and it pained me to do it, but it was the only solution to...
Just wondering, did you have any beta readers for your manuscript? It took me a year to edit and rewrite parts of my novel after my beta readers...
Just from some personal experience about subplots. I had a lot of subplots in my book leading to nowhere. The ones I tried coming back to made...
thanks Cynglen and Cogito. You have both answered my question.
I couldn't find this in Cathy's formatting FAQ. Basically, in my manuscript, there is one scene in one of the chapters where my character is...
Separate names with a comma.
