Ages ago (but still in my lifetime), one of the coolest and most respected experts and teachers on fiction craft was a motorcycle-riding, cigar-smoking, long-haired, restlessly brilliant scholar in classics and literature named John Gardner. And one of his most famous...
You’ve finished a complete version of your manuscript after countless hours of work and mental effort. You’re ready and eager to thrust it into the next stage of actually become a published book. You’d like to think it’s about as perfect as you can make it on your...
