For Writers – Page 2 – Geoff Palmer

How to Beat “Synopsis Horror” and Quickly Summarise Your Book

How do you summarise your book in a couple of sentences? Impossible, right? You’ve written sixty-, seventy-, eighty-thousand words or[…]

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According to Dean Wesley Smith, the 80,000 word (or longer) novel was an invention of Big Publishing. A typical novel[…]

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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov As a kid, Asimov got his start reading science[…]

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Isaac Asimov, author of more than 500 books, and not just fiction – his non-fiction books appear in nine of[…]

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Despite her public persona, Dolly Parton is a savvy business-person, which probably explains a music career that’s now well into its sixth decade.

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The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book. Mickey Spillane Frank Morrison Spillane, (1918-2006), better[…]

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There’s an interesting interview with multi-award-winning local author (and current New Zealand Society of Authors’ president) Mandy Hager over on[…]

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“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away,” is a phrase that may well apply to what’s claimed[…]

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The ticking clock on The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award shows that entries close in a little over five[…]

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“From my close observation of writers … they fall into two groups: those who bleed copiously and visibly at any[…]

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