What makes a good read? Is it characterization, plot, style? A unique idea, or the rules of your favourite genre? I’ve asked some of the best independent authors I know what they like to read — what makes a good read for them. Today, here are the first three to answer: RS Guthrie, author of the […]
When I tell people I wrote the first draft of my upcoming novel, When Shadows Fall (The First Book of the Small Gods) in fourteen days, they either stare at me with a blank expression, make me repeat it to ensure they didn’t mishear me and I actually said forty, or they ask me how […]
How important is writing style for the author and the reader? This week, Terry Tyler, independent author of four (soon to be five) novels that, like most of those I enjoy most, defy genre boundaries. How would you describe your own writing style? In some ways this is very difficult to answer, Scott, because I’m […]