"Change is good.” We hear that a lot these days, and that certainly seems true in today’s fiction book market. With the phenomenal growth of e-books (...

Q: I’m self-publishing my novel and I’m hesitant to hire an editor. I don’t want to lose control over it. I’m proud of how it turned out and I can...

As promised, in this column, no more dialogue don’ts. Instead, we’ll go over some do’s: aspects of dialogue that you really should work on if you want your readers to hang on those words.1. Use speech economically. That is, use only the words necessa...