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71Tips for Successful Novel Writing
by Marisa Wright
Your opening paragraph is the most important in the whole book - it's what draws your reader into the story. It doesn't have to be exciting, or shocking, or different. It does have to leave the reader... published 24 hours ago
72How to Promote your Novel
by Marisa Wright
This Hub is for Crash Cromwell. Crash has been struggling with how to get his trilogy noticed. He'd like to sell some copies now, but his ultimate aim is to get it in front of a mainstream publisher. I have... published 27 hours ago
73Plotting and scheming that novel?
by ajbarnett
A plot can perhaps be described as the structure of scenes dealing with the problems that separate a novel from daily life. Most novels are larger than life. More things happen, deeper problems are solved.... published 6 days ago
69Book Publicity and the Shy Author
by ajbarnett
I swallowed the overwhelming temptation to run. I put my hand in my pocket, took some out, and handed them over. I still can't believe I did it. I'd had a drink to be honest - well one or two, which probably... published 6 days ago
78Novel Writing
by mollyniendorf
Have you written a novel, or are you in the process of writing your first draft? Or are you, like me, terrified of the novel? When writing fiction, I tend to stick to short stories. They're less... published 8 days ago
54Exit Music: The Last Rebus Novel
by Gordon Hamilton
Detective Inspector John Rebus, the creation of Scottish thriller writer Ian Rankin, is at last about to be put out to pasture. What has in some ways been an inglorious career, brought about by his own... published 10 days ago
69Best Seller for a Day
by ajbarnett
Stephenie MeyerI'd been reading about her you see. In fact I'd already written a blog about her a few hours earlier. That, and the release of Breaking Dawn, the new book in her Twilight series of vampire... published 2 weeks ago
56The Anthropologist Author
by bibliobibuli
An interview with Canadian author Camilla Gibb. published 2 weeks ago
63The Character Interview as a Writing Tool
by DonnaCSmith
When writing a novel it is important to know your characters, and it makes life easier to get to know them early in your writing. There may be things in your character's past that you will not write in your... published 3 weeks ago
64Speaking Without Reproach?
by ajbarnett
So, the radio presenter said, "What's this book of yours about then? Give me a quick run-down of WITHOUT REPROACH." It was a telephone interview; on the spot, no warning, just a ringing of the bell and a hasty... published 3 weeks ago
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