Posts about writing

I have to admit, I really hate villain POVs. There are so few villains that have any redeemable qualities, and especially starting a book out[…]

And by the way, if you haven’t seen me talk about it on Twitter or Facebook, you should check out this post on Cynthia Leitich[…]

A writer asks: I recently submitted the first three chapters of my manuscript to Tu Books as per your guidelines, and I am a ball[…]

Reader reactions are so subjective. One person might think there’s not nearly enough worldbuilding in a book (“give me more! MORE!”) and another might say[…]

I’m going through a big stack of submissions that have been languishing for a while (and if you submitted a partial before Sept. 1 and[…]

Writers often ask me about query letters—how to write them, what to put in them, what will hook me. The problem is that I hate[…]

Just a few thoughts that combine from reading a couple recently published postapocalyptic trade books and some of the submissions I’ve been going through recently.[…]

For those of you who submitted PARTIAL manuscripts, I am nearly up to date on everything that has come in up through June 1. I’ll[…]

See here for part 1. Many authors have broken that mold & followed Ursula K. Le Guin’s admonition to write more of the “other.” But[…]

I see this so often—most recently earlier today: A “writer”* tells his or her friends, “I have this great idea for a novel! What do[…]