Mystery Fiction
So … earlier this week we talked about literary fiction, and I promised to move on to mysteries. I began to write something, but stopped when I realized that Wikipedia was my friend: there’s no need to...
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A Quick Word About Fictional Genres—Again
An online publisher put together this amusing chart for those of you who still want to see where your favorite novels fall. So what does it mean? Genres are about marketing. They’re about what shelf...
View ArticleWhy Read Fiction?
This was the title of a rather depressing piece in Salon magazine some weeks ago, but it’s served to create some debate. My colleague Margaret Frey had this to say: Jeeze, that Salon article is...
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How Long Is A Novel?
Well, of course, that depends. But if you’re a first-time author and you’re trying to catch the eye of a traditional publisher (okay, okay, a mixed metaphor at best), you need to be concerned about...
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Writing Rule #4: Be Invisible
Okay, so I don’t really know if this is rule #4 or not. It’s somewhere in my top five for sure. I’ve talked about it in my podcast, in workshops, and probably on this blog, and I talk about it with...
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