Tag: Fiction
How meeting Sam Hiyate changed my writing life
The first time I pitched to agents was by far my most terrifying experience as a writer. A friend convinced me to attend a weekend writing conference and, at the end, we pitched a dozen agents. In person! I wasn’t the only one panicking either. People were freaking out around me. Some refused to leave their hotel rooms…
Creating Memorable Characters in Literary Fiction
By Author Christopher Canniff Perhaps you think of humorous characters, such as the vivacious Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces, Yossarian’s eccentric hilarity in Catch-22, or the impetuous and resourceful Henry Smart in Roddy Doyle’s A Star Called Henry. Maybe you recall the tenacity of Santiago in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea,…
How NOT To Query
Guest post by author @StephanJHahn. I am no expert in the art of the query letter. In fact, I’m deep in the trenches of a war that I don’t even want to be fighting with all the people I don’t want to be fighting with. I recently finished an epic fantasy manuscript and I thought…
