Certain words are easy to get wrong.
Some people spell words incorrectly or type the wrong word because they don’t know any better. That’s understandable. English spelling is hard.
I wish I had that excuse. The words I most often get wrong are ones I know how to spell — and know the difference between them, like pore and pour or stationery and stationary. Somehow, in the … Continue reading
There’s good news for discouraged novelists.
When I worked as an agent, publishers kept repeating the same bad news for one client, who’d just written her first novel. While they liked her story and style, they turned down her book because it just didn’t fit their boxes.
Some said they did publish historicals, but only stories that fit their familiar, sales-proven categories. Others were more specific: They … Continue reading
Don’t hide from editors who want to publish your work.
Imagine that a magazine or anthology editor wants to publish something you’ve written, but isn’t sure who you are, how to reach you, or where to send payment.
That really happens. “Once I had two authors with the same name,” says a compilation editor who works with hundreds of contributors, “and neither put their contact information … Continue reading