Business: Agency Contract Clauses

Vicki Hinze © 2004-2011 I’ve been with the same agent for 4 years and he’s done a good job for me. Now, his agency is putting a clause in my contract with my PUBLISHER that says the agency has a “vested interest” for the “life of the...

Business: Advance Reading Copy or ARC

Vicki Hinze © 2004-2011 An ARC is typically called an Advance Review Copy or an Advance Reading Copy. It is simply a copy of your manuscript that you (or your publisher) make available to others, such as reviewers and key booksellers, before the publisher copies of...

Craft: Author Theme and Why It is Important

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Regardless of how much planning you do as an author, it’s of little value to you unless you write. But then we often get bogged down on what to write. There are so many options! Naturally, we want to write to our strengths–be those...

Craft: Author Theme v Novel Theme

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Author theme and a novel’s theme are NOT the one and the same. A novel’s theme is specific to that particular novel. The author might write fifty novels, and give each of the fifty novels a different theme. The author’s theme...

Craft: Backstory

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Q. When you’re writing a novel and want it critiqued, I was always told to drop backstory and add the action or move the action up, in order to trickle some information along the way. Why is that? And how do you do that? A. The rule of...
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