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Despite the protests of some legendary authors from back in the day, every writer needs an editor. Here at BookViewCafe, we often edit each others’

I recently had to exorcise, er, fire a client. One I’d been working with for years. I have written three complete novels for this fellow,

A client for my ghostwriting and editing services—I shall call him Rocky—once asked me what essential things a writer must do to lay the foundations

This is a true story. The names and titles have been changed to protect the guilty. A longtime collaborator whose movie script I was novelizing

What? Who hires a ghostwriter for fiction? I know, right? I frequently get asked that question when I’m on writing panels at conventions. And

Originally published July 2010 in a series by Phillis Irene Radford. Ask any five writers how they develop a character and you will get five

In the previous post, I discussed why one might choose a multiple point of view narrative over a single point of view. This part of

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