Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Vicki Hinze © 2001 Q. I've just written a children's book and am about to submit it to a publisher, but because my main focus is on, and I have written,...

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Vicki Hinze © 2001 There are two kinds of writers. Those who write for their own pleasure, and those who write to sell. If you’re writing for your own...

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Vicki Hinze © 2001 Recently, a writer wrote to me through the Aids4Writers program, saying that she had been "writing for a good eight years now with no...

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 I've had eleven books published (two publishers) and I'm now frustrated to the point of changing careers. My editor keeps saying she wants something "new"...

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 By creative necessity, writers spend a lot of time alone. But writers who write to sell are far from isolated in the writing and selling endeavor. We...

Vicki Hinze © 2003 In my next novel, I would like to transcribe/describe the contents of a letter. What do you suggest is the best way to do this? I've done this two ways and...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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...