

5 Things About Genre Writing that No Publishing Company Tells You
You’ve already read all the how-to articles. As in, how to get an agent. How to get a publishing contract. How to write a page-turner. And one of things that they all emphasize is that you have to know what genre you’re writing and make that genre clear. Are you writing a romance? Murder mystery? Thriller? Fantasy? Spell it out and highlight it in bold. And there are good reasons for this. At the –duh– level of obvious, the publishing company wants to know what genre you’ve w


What do Harry Potter, Tarzan, Luke Skywalker and Oliver Twist have in common?
What do Harry Potter, Oliver Twist, Luke Skywalker and Dorothy of Oz have in common? They are all orphans.