So good it makes me sick.
I’ll admit right up front that I am a very squeamish person. Blood and guts and gore will never appeal to me, in any kind of format—I’ve fainted in doctor’s offices and classrooms when presented with...
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I didn’t eat breakfast this morning (not unusual) and am spending my morning glumly munching on broken pieces of vaguely stale sourdough pretzels left at the bottom of a giant tub in the office kitchen...
View ArticleSeries of friends
Though if I were to encounter them now, I would be annoyed and bored to tears, the reliability and formulaic construction of most of the book series’ I read growing up were some of the things that kept...
View ArticleBad sex
I’m sure I’ve mentioned here before how much I relish certain kinds of bad writing. Whether it’s found in queries so incoherent they make you want to request the manuscript they reference to see if...
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What I’m looking for in fantasy
Science fiction and fantasy, more so than other genres, rely on worldbuilding. And worldbuilding is hard. Novels in this genre don’t just need the usual—good writing with complex characters and...
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Coco Chanel’s Guide to Sample Pages
If you follow us on our Facebook page (and you should!) you’ve already seen this post from the Penguin Random House blog about what editors want to see in a winning first page. I gave it a read and...
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