How to Start a Novel: A Checklist
Getting the beginning of your novel right is key to landing an agent, signing a contract, and racking up sales. Here’s a checklist to help you craft powerful first lines and great opening paragraphs.
Read MorePosted by Laura DiSilverio | Nov 9, 2018 | Craft
Getting the beginning of your novel right is key to landing an agent, signing a contract, and racking up sales. Here’s a checklist to help you craft powerful first lines and great opening paragraphs.
Read MorePosted by Laura DiSilverio | Oct 24, 2018 | Thriller
Want to keep your readers up all night? To do that, you need to create suspense, regardless of your novel’s genre. Incorporating these four techniques into your fiction will have your readers turning pages faster than ever.
Read MorePosted by Laura DiSilverio | Oct 8, 2018 | Craft
Some writers have an ear for dialogue the way some actors have a knack for accents. Other writers struggle. Here are tips for both.
Read MorePosted by Laura DiSilverio | Sep 24, 2018 | Craft
What can make a reader abandon your book after the first paragraph? These 8 rookie mistakes, for starters. Don’t start your novel with any of them!
Read MorePosted by Laura DiSilverio | Sep 11, 2018 | Craft, Life, Mystery
Paula Munier—agent, writing teacher, and debut novelist—talks to Career Authors about the challenges of writing a series featuring a dog as a main characters, the challenges of tackling the second book, and how life as a military brat affects the way she writes setting.
Read MorePosted by Laura DiSilverio | Aug 29, 2018 | Mystery
Cozies and cats go together like peanut butter and jelly or Bert and Ernie. That might make it seem as if you can toss a tabby randomly into your cozy manuscript and your work is done. Not so fast. You have a few decisions to make before plunking a Pekingese into the first paragraph.
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