I recently finished reading Donald Maass’ Writing the Breakout Novel. Maass is an author and literary agent and the book has lots of practical and useful advice on how to make your book more readable. The book concentrates on the key …
Just reminding people that my short story Reading By Numbers is eligible to be nominated for a Hugo. 🙂 Sean Wallace, the co-editor of Fantasy includes the story in his nominations. My story didn’t make the Nebula shortlist, but SF …
Cory Doctorow has made the point that although many people complain about being unable to read a novel on a computer, these days most people are comfortable reading equivalent amounts of text on web sites. One of the problems with …