Does the fact that a good third of you just began hyperventilating mean that it had not occurred to you that whether a story is not only well-written, but attacked from an appropriate narrative angle is a potential rejection trigger? It is, inevitably. Wouldn’t it have been nice if your...
To put it another way, you can’t be certain that the finding a sense of wholeness after the death of a loved one memoir that the judge read immediately before yours was not written by Emily Brontë and Gustave Flaubert’s oddly gifted spiritual love child, can you? Sad but true, if...
Chuck Bowie is both a writer and an author, with thirteen books/novels published and one just underway. While he enjoys writing mysteries: Suspense-Thrillers and Cozy Mysteries, he also writes short stories. All of his books are well-reviewed, and he has sat on the boards of the Writers’...
His dry, ironic works of fiction continued the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Gore Vidal said, "Of all our novelists, Auchincloss is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs... Not since Dreiser...
(meaning something that was written in the last decade or so), you know where Stephanie Plum is inOne for the Money, because it’s smooshed throughout the story. The author, Janet Evanovich, sprinkles it in throughout. You can’t forget Stephanie’s a Jersey girl – it’s part of ...
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Tell us a little bit about your writing process. Do you know the outcome of your story from the start? Is everything mapped out ahead of time, or are there surprises in the course of getting the story written? I’m a seat-of-the-pants writer, which means my first drafts meander all...
How tearful the words he uses in a letter written to Atticus, when Pompey the elder had been conquered, and the son was still trying to restore his shattered arms in Spain! “Do you ask,” he said, “what I am doing here? I am lingering in my Tusculan villa half a prisoner.” He...
Korean literature, the body of works written by Koreans, at first in Classical Chinese, later in various transcription systems using Chinese characters, and finally in Hangul (Korean: han’gŭl; Hankul in the Yale romanization), the national alphabet. Although Korea has had its own language ...
betrayal and family drama. While the themes are universal, the wealthy Oppenheimer family at the center of the story is very much a depiction of wealthy Jewish New York. A New York Times review of the book compares the story to one thatEdith Whartonmight have written about exclusive Christian...