Craft: Brief Word on Synopses

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Once a brief idea has been fleshed out into a story set in a specific place and peopled by specific, three-dimensional characters, the writer must actually lay out the novel. A practical way to do so is through the synopsis. A synopsis is...

Business: Changing Agents

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Q. I’ve been with my current agent for about 3 years, but business is being handled in a way that lets me know I need to change. Will my publishers frown on that and will it have a negative impact on my relations with them? Also, when do...

Business: Changing Gears

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Changing gears, or changing from writing one novel type to another, presents new opportunities for the writer and new challenges. It also presents special considerations for the writer, and I’d like to share a few of those, from a writer’s...

Craft: Common Mechanical Pitfalls

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 (Blog Post) When asked, a group of editors from top publishing houses, responded that the following are the most often seen mechanical errors in works submitted by authors. By removing these errors from our works, we greatly enhance our...

Business: Contract Considerations

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 Q. What 5 things do you consider most important in book contracts? A. Literary contracts are long–averaging about 30 pages–and complex, and there isn’t a clause in them that isn’t important or there for a specific...
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