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Nothing makes your characters pop off the page like well chosen phrases in their dialog. Have her use specific, well[…]
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Nothing makes your characters pop off the page like well chosen phrases in their dialog. Have her use specific, well[…]
Read moreAnd how to pickle them I’ve always had a rather foggy idea of what a red herring was, but I[…]
Read moreThe first time I saw Brian Thiem, he was reading from his novel, Red Line, and I was awed. Not[…]
Read moreAs you know, I love Vanity Fair. At the back of the magazine is a “Proust Questionnaire” where they ask[…]
Read more…doesn’t have to stay at Malice. My panel was “International and Off the Beaten Path Settings. Here’s the low down[…]
Read moreLast night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
Read moreSigns and portents, my dear readers, signs and portents. Last week, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt all along the[…]
Read moreWho said that about whom? Of course, that’s how F. Scott Fitzgerald, through Nick, described Daisy Buchanan’s voice in The[…]
Read moreMiss Demeanor blogger C. Michele Dorsey wrote a post earlier this week titled, Writers Who Left a Hole in My[…]
Read moreEarlier this month, I traveled to Dubai to teach a Novel-Writing boot camp at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.[…]
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