Ask An Editor: Positioning Your Book

Ask An Editor: Positioning Your Book

Posted on Friday, August 20th, 2010 by Adrienne Giordano

This month, we’re looking at a question that comes up frequently in the mailbag, though it takes many varied forms. The upshot: a writer is sitting on a completed manuscript. It belongs in a genre [...]

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Wandering body parts, oh my!

Wandering body parts, oh my!

Posted on Friday, July 16th, 2010 by Adrienne Giordano

Hi, I’m a romance author with my debut ready to go out sometime this year. However, the date has been pushed back because of my bad grammar. My publisher wants me to fix certain things [...]

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Ask An Editor: Synopsis vs. Outline

Ask An Editor: Synopsis vs. Outline

Posted on Friday, June 18th, 2010 by Kelsey Browning

But we’ve noticed a few trends in the questions. People ask about many of the same issues, and many of those issues center on how to build effective sentences. So now we’re going to alternate questions with these common topics of concern. Don’t worry! This won’t be your junior high English class! And nothing could prove that point better than a quick examination of verb tenses. What you were taught in school isn’t precisely what you need to know as a fiction writer. Let’s examine some of those differences within the five major tenses.

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Ask An Editor: Structuring an Overheard Phone Conversation

Ask An Editor: Structuring an Overheard Phone Conversation

Posted on Friday, May 21st, 2010 by Tracey Devlyn

Dear Theresa:
This might not be earth shattering enough to be posted – BUT – I’d really appreciate an answer on this one – as this type of scene is in two different spots in my [...]

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Ask An Editor: Verb Tense

Ask An Editor: Verb Tense

Posted on Friday, April 16th, 2010 by Kelsey Browning

But we’ve noticed a few trends in the questions. People ask about many of the same issues, and many of those issues center on how to build effective sentences. So now we’re going to alternate questions with these common topics of concern. Don’t worry! This won’t be your junior high English class! And nothing could prove that point better than a quick examination of verb tenses. What you were taught in school isn’t precisely what you need to know as a fiction writer. Let’s examine some of those differences within the five major tenses.

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Ask An Editor: Submissions

Ask An Editor: Submissions

Posted on Friday, March 19th, 2010 by Tracey Devlyn

This month, for something different, we’re going to answer a trio of short questions on the topic of submissions. Be sure to read below to find out how you can win a download of Partners [...]

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Ask an Editor: Paragraph Organization

Ask an Editor:  Paragraph Organization

Posted on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by Adrienne Giordano

Last month, we looked at a sequencing/verb tense issue in a sample paragraph. We ended up with a paragraph which made the causation and sequencing clear, but that left me asking a question about whether [...]

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Ask An Editor: Problem With Tense?

Ask An Editor: Problem With Tense?

Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 by Tracey Devlyn

This month, for something different, we’re going to examine a paragraph sent in by a reader. She recently received some feedback which complained about the verb tenses in this paragraph.
Her dark gaze darted from [...]

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Ask an Editor: Is it a romance?

Ask an Editor:  Is it a romance?

Posted on Friday, December 18th, 2009 by Adrienne Giordano

Dear Theresa,
I wanted to ask you a question that has been recently discussed at our on line writing group, about the definitions of the romance genre.
To my understanding the definition is that a love story [...]

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Ask an Editor: Passive and Literary Writing

Ask an Editor: Passive and Literary Writing

Posted on Friday, November 27th, 2009 by Kelsey Browning

Theresa:
Your last column on writing actively brought up a question I’ve had for quite some time on passive voice writing.  In commercial genre fiction (romance, mystery, etc), the practice of writing in an active voice [...]

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