Month: January 2015

 

Thinking about using song lyrics in your book? You might want to change your mind.

For some reason, many aspiring bookwriters put someone else’s lyrics in their books. We’ve discovered that about 65% of the manuscripts we’ve received so far include snippets of song lyrics written by someone other than the writer of the manuscript in question. We understand the temptation. Lyrics do a wonderfulRead More …

What Makes a Great First Chapter? (We’re talking fiction right now.)

The elusive great first chapter! Everyone writer wants to create one and too many think they already did. If only there was a tool, a guide, a checklist of sorts a writer could refer to . . . Voila! Here’s what we think makes a great first chapter. Actually, uponRead More …