Authors! Tired of positive reviews? Want to lose your audience fast? Here’s a handy guide to ensuring readers will put down your work and never pick it up again! 1. What’s the rush? There’s no need to introduce the central conflict of the story for at least seventy pages. Readers appreciate “immersion” in your world, [...]
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Hunting the Elusive Beta Reader
Writers long to be read. Why else would we be in this business? Completing a book can be a lonely and isolating experience, and if you’re anything like me, gnomes of self-doubt will be gnawing at your ankles the entire way. But once we’ve struggled through that first (and second) draft, and finally hunted down [...]
