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Character motivations can be tricky to convey thoughtfully but clearly. Readers need reminders often enough...

Just like your first page, this needs to hook an agent to want to learn more about your story. In this case, that means having the data...

Your second act should be something for readers to just get through. There are ways to write one that’s enticing...

Much like the rest of the economy, publishing is seeing a labor shortage that is kept quiet from the author community...

Spending your writing time with editing in mind means spending less time editing AND ending up with a more polished product...

Including a prologue in your story is high-risk, high-reward. Some readers absolutely love them, but many readers won’t read them...

Making sure you have the biggest scenes in the right places will give you a lot of leeway in reader experience...

Believe it or not, hook writing is a sales technique. And it will help you bring readers on as well as agents and editors...