Resist the Urge to Explain (aka Trust Your Reader)
Photo Credit - IMDb I love watching police procedurals, but I've lost patience with the dialogue-for-dialogue's-sake. CSI: NY was one of the worst offenders. A group of the greatest scientific minds in one of the greatest cities in the world standing around talking: Girl: Who would do something [...]
Featured Author: Kimberly Rose Johnson
Copyright © 2013 by Harlequin Enterprises LimitedCover Art used by arrangement with Harlequin Enterprises Limited This month it's a pleasure to introduced Kimberly Rose Johnson, a writer of contemporary romance who put in years of hard work before she sold her first novel. Please take a few minutes [...]
I Have a Critique Partner, Do I Need an Editor?
Photo Credit As a novelist, one of the greatest pieces of advice I ever received was to get a critique partner. There's nothing better than having a like-minded writer reading and reviewing your work. When it's time to submit to agents, however, it's not a bad idea to [...]
A Story Worth Telling by Angela Ruth Strong
I’ve heard it said that the success of a book is directly related to the darkness of “the black point.” You know that point—the moment when all is lost. If readers are biting their nails and asking, “How in the heck of the world are they going to get out [...]
Book Review: A Bride for Keeps by Melissa Jagears
Although Everett Cline can hardly keep up with the demands of his homestead, he won't humiliate himself by looking for a helpmate ever again--not after being jilted by three mail-order brides. When a well-meaning neighbor goes behind his back to bring yet another mail-order bride to town, he has good [...]