By Aaron Ritchey Whenever I meet anyone who doesn’t like Stephen King, I immediately mistrust and I hate them. I’m a HUGE Stephen King fan, and I just finished reading 11/22/63, which is just one of his many masterpieces. Yes, I am a Stephen King fan, but I also am full of envy and hate. …
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Animals as Secondary Characters
Hi, I’m Robin D. Owens and I write fantasy romance for Berkley-Penguin-Random House (the “Heart” Series – 13 going on 14). I also write the Ghost Seer paranormal romance series for Berkley (Ghost Seer out last April, Ghost Layer recently released in September and Ghost Killer out next February). I wrote a five book series…
You and Your Books Will Burn In Hell For All Eternity
By Aaron Ritchey I have monstrously grandiose way of thinking, which does not help me very much outside of writing fiction. For example, whenever anyone wants to introduce me to someone, I always assume they will be Hollywood gorgeous, man or woman. However, most people look so…normal. Real life disappoints me most of the time….
Snip, Snip, Snip. Oh, the pain! Cutting your manuscript.
By Robin D. Owens But that was the best line. The funniest. The most heartfelt and tender. And the whole scene must be cut. I write long – that is, for a 100K word novel contract, I usually hit 103K, and have been known to go up to, ah, I think 120K. That means, for…
You Have the Power
The writing business is a tough one. It eats unwary writers for breakfast and smears the leavings over computer screens and scraps of paper for the wind to blow away. A writer’s world is full of politics and trolls, reviews and rejections, market trends and genre crashes, not to mention the self doubt and despair involved in trying to transform that brilliant but elusive idea into reasonably coherent prose.