Quite possible for self-publishing if one tries to make a first-class product. Cover art is important (even as an illustration for selling...
Yes, that's what I meant by useless. My poor wording - that wasn't what I meant by not-quite-a-novel. It's a complete story and has been through...
The best beta readers are other writers in your genre or people who have practiced critique. People who read a lot can sometimes be helpful but...
One must be quite careful about what is and what is not behind a login. You can log out or use a private window in your browser, and google will...
There's your best advice.
Can you give her some decisions/actions that reflect her recognition of the issues, rather than spelling them out?
It isn't just little things, sometimes it's a major premise. Like the net energy problem mentioned above that would render their work useless...
I scream and yell when a book pretends to be realistic and gets geography, science, or history wrong. Dan Brown was mentioned above. He makes...
Like most Americans, I was never properly educated with another language, and can only write in English. Oh, I had a few semesters of Spanish,...
Oops - hung up response and I doubled.
There are many such stories out there. Just because we don't know how to do it didn't stop those authors from writing a good story. Note that...
Internet is one route. Friends, even avid readers, don't tend to give much constructive feedback. Another route is to find or start a local...
If it's fiction based on present facts and plausible extrapolation, I don't see an ethical problem. That sort of thing can make people think...
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