Editing Otherwise: Fresh Approaches to Stories and Settings

This blog post discusses editor salaries, sharing my own experience and figures. I discuss hourly rates and annual salaries, and where...

I used to work as a cultural anthropologist, first in the UK, and then in Serbia, Croatia, and Germany in that order. Before I became a...

Readers connect deeply with characters. Maybe you can remember some of the characters you first connected with as a child or teenager?...

A passive protagonist is one in which the story "happens" to them. Instead of their personality making choices about what course of...

Many authors find fight scenes notoriously difficult to write. Maybe you just skipped the fight scene chapter until last? Or maybe you...

When telling a story or writing a factual narrative in English, you have two main tenses you can use: present tense and past tense. Here...

Q: I’m a newbie editor. How can I find material to use for a portfolio? A: Hi there! So, what counts as your portfolio depends on what...

The standard advice for handling dialect in commercial fiction is to stick to fairly standard forms. Popular advice says that: 1) You can...

“Write what you know” is popular advice often given to writers. That’s because it’s easier to imagine a setting you know well and write...

This week’s post is on publishing scams, with a focus on traditional publishing. It covers how authors can protect themselves.