These tips will help you polish your writing once you already have the plot structure in place. You can use them at any time in your process, but they’ll be especially useful when you’re working on your second draft. 1. Begin your novel (and most chapters) with action...
Big 5 Publishers and Imprints Today’s book publishing market is tighter than ever. Ongoing consolidation within the publishing industry has meant that there are fewer major houses to submit to. Since 2013, the industry has been known for the so-called Big 5 publishers...
I find that many of the nonfiction writers I work with are maybe just a little too smart for their own good. I say this with affection and appreciation for how hard it is to communicate paragraph after paragraph of complex information and insight in a coherent way....
Fiction Editing Fiction is an art, and editors must be respectful of that. Typically, the best fiction engages readers in such a way that they fully embrace the alternate universe created by the writer and immediately “get” this other world. There should...
Submitting my book — 7 mistakes that scream “amateur” Agents are inundated with submissions. Technology has made it easy for people to write and then submit what they’ve written to agents (or directly to publishing houses), hopeful their work will be...
