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When I got my first negative review, I was devastated and angry.  It was not from any sort of professional or semi-professional book reviewer, or even a person who had several reviews already on Amazon.  In fact, there was only one other review

In several reviews of my book, readers mentioned that they were invested in the novels characters’ and that they really cared about what happened to them.  This feeling of concern is what motivates readers to stay with a book and to turn the

Dialogue reveals an abundance of information about characters:   Their  thoughts, motivations, personality, strengths, weaknesses, desires, dislikes, etc.  So writing good dialogue is crucial in creating a good novel. Dialogue should be natural

In Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees, Frank’s relentless search for a missing frying pan acts as an extended metaphor for Silvia’s relentless search for a perfect place.  I am a big fan of this particular literary device, which is a metaphor

All people– writers and non-writers– are storytellers.  We tell ourselves stories each and every day and the stories that we tell ourselves shape our perceptions of the world in which we live.  I’ve become keenly aware of the