Posts Tagged ‘novel’
Kirstin Valdez Quade on The Five Wounds & Writing into Uncertainty
Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds. Her previous book, Night at the Fiestas, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and was also named a New York Times Notable Book. Kirstin talked about the rural New Mexico setting in which the book takes place, including its Latinx population, the drug…
Read MoreBecoming a Sensitive, Responsible Fiction Writer
by C. S. Lakin If you’re a fiction writer, you create characters. Hopefully believable ones. Characters your readers love and hate. Characters that pop off the page and take readers on an exciting journey. Regardless of whether you write lighthearted comedy, serious relational dramas, complicated romance, or adventurous fantasy, more than mere authenticity is needed—if…
Read More12 Ways to Excite Pros About Your Novel
There are twelve ways to get agents and editors excited about your novel.
Read MoreMaking Your Book Unputdownable
There are eleven ways to make your novels or narrative nonfiction books unputdownable so they become bestsellers.
Read MoreWriting for Yourself or the Marketplace?
Find the right balance between art and commerce, between writing for yourself and writing for the marketplace.
Read More