Discover 5 ways to rise above cliched and melodramatic villains in your novels to create memorable antagonists your readers can fall in love with in this article by scifi romance author, Keri Kruspe.
Hook your readers with great beginnings and endings. If readers don’t like your opening scene, they won’t read the rest of the book. But if your last scene doesn’t provide a pay-off, you’ve failed them—and they won’t read your next book.
by Beth Barany · Published March 8, 2018 · Last modified January 6, 2021
While teaching our Edit Your Novel Intensive, I received a great question from a student. She wanted an example of how to fix a flashback. So I put out the call to my current...
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