Business: Subsidy, Vanity, Self-Publishing

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Q. Could you please go over the difference between a subsidy/vanity publisher and self-publishing? I have heard that the first is sleazy, and the second is commendable, but don’t they both involve the author paying her own money to get...

Business: State of the Market–Romantic Suspense

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 As of 10.30.07 Romantic Suspense has been a hot, marketable commodity. According to many of the publishers surveyed, the heat is holding–at least, for the foreseeable future. Reader Irritants: In a recent RT Book Club survey of 1600...

Craft: Telescoping Characters

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 I was studying a book on craft and ran into an unfamiliar term: “Telescoping characters.” The context didn’t hint at what it meant, and I haven’t seen it in other books on craft. Do you know what the author was talking...

Business: Taking Risks

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 My editor is “concerned” that I’m playing it too safe in my books. He says I need to get edgier and take more risks. But if I take more risks, then don’t I also raise the odds of getting rejected? Aren’t editors...

Craft: Two-Dimensional Characters

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 I just had my mainstream fiction manuscript edited and was told that my characters are two dimensional. What does that mean? What is the difference between one, two and three dimensional characters? Three-dimensional characters are ones the...
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