Writing Advice

Crafting the Perfect Pitch: 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid

Let’s face it, pitching it hard. You’ve spent months or (more than likely) years drafting, revising, and polishing this novel to perfection, and yet now you need to summarize it down into less than 280 characters? Yikes. But don’t worry, there’s a few things you can do (as well as some to avoid) in order… Continue reading Crafting the Perfect Pitch: 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid

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Advice for new authors – The pitfalls of fiction novel openings

Writing the opening pages of a novel is hard.  How do you set the right tone?  What’s the best way to convey the main character’s wants, needs, appearance, age, etc?  How do you get the plot moving from page one?  Sadly there’s no magic bullet that will address all of these things for all manuscripts;… Continue reading Advice for new authors – The pitfalls of fiction novel openings