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To determine your genre, you have to consider the heart of your story.

There is a lot you can learn from reading a lot of books, including the patterns of your genre.

Some writers think that genre is something marketing slaps onto a finished book in order to make it sell. But that is not how it works.

Dialogue can be tricky. Instead of being told by your usual narrator, dialogue lets each of your characters speak for themselves. The...

Whether your book is character-driven or plot-driven, no book can be truly interesting with a perfect main character. Characters need to...

Here are some tips for using simple mechanics to help readers keep the speaker straight.

Every writer has heard this advice: Show, don't tell. It's all over the online writing communities. But the advice is a flawed rule

When writing dialogue, it can feel like you are writing an endless stream of names, pronouns, and dialogue tags. It can be a delicate...

If you've done your research on querying, you've probably found the phrase "standalone with series potential"

If you've found the perfect publisher, it can be hard to understand why they would reject your manuscript based solely on a word count.