Readers expect you’ll get your facts straight.
Writing fiction? Unless it’s science fiction or fantasy, don’t think you can make up everything.
No mater how exotic your setting, readers expect you’ll not only set the scene with vivid details, but also that you’ll get those details right. When my wife recently read a novel that had someone in Denver drive south on a street … Continue reading
Will your opening turn browsers into buyers?
On a recent trip through Germany, we made a lot of restaurant choices. But before we stepped inside, we checked the front window for the menu.
Not just any restaurant would do. With two young children, we wanted a restaurant that offered a children’s menu or something plain in small portions. Several of us hoped for regional … Continue reading
Keep the connection you’re making with readers.
I didn’t use our trip as an excuse to take a break from blogging.
From what’s been posted online, you should have no idea my wife and I were traveling the past few weeks. Before we left, I wrote and scheduled the posts that would appear while we’d be away.
My motive wasn’t to prevent burglaries … Continue reading