Craft: Twelve Tips from the Trenches

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Opinions vary, but based on my decade of experience in this business, and some of the hard-knock lessons I’ve learned, here are what I hope will prove to you to be a few helpful hints: 1. Odds of publishing a category novel (versus single-title...

Business: Unethical Agents

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Q. I’ve had serious problems with two agents. Both agreed to represent me and then did nothing. The first one for six months. The second one for four months. They’ve wasted a year of my time and I’ve just been waiting. How can...

Craft: Villains

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Villains are tricky rascals. As an author your job requires you walk a fine line. You must make your villains credible, logical, believable and understandable, but not likable. You want your villains to be real, three-dimensional people. You...

Craft: Using a Time Line

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Several years ago I wrote a fictional biography which had to be chronological, not starting the beginning of each year, but certainly the start of many and other dates. Now I am turning this into a novel, and as I get into it I find I am also...

Craft: Universal Emotion

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 If ever a writer doubted the power of universal emotions, s/he should have a vivid vision of it now, considering the events of this past week. What the writer might not have is a clear understanding of what s/he has seen. As writers, we are...
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