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by Anne R. Allen Beginning writers love prologues. My first novel had one. I’ll bet yours does too. And why not? Prologues are the quickest way to set the scene and establish the mood and tone of your novel. They allow us to snuggle into a fictional world and get comfy before the action […]
How Long Should A Novel Be? by Anne R. Allen A lot of agents have been complaining about queries with inappropriate word counts recently. If you’re getting a lot of form rejections, this may be why. Today Fineprint agent Colleen Lindsay has posted an update of contemporary word count rules on her great blog, THE […]
There’s been some discussion on other blogs about some of my statements about how publishers label things. Please know I’m just the messenger—I don’t condone those one-size-fits-all categories any more than other writers. Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay it Forward weighed in by directing me to a blogpost in her blog archives about the […]
This is one of my most pirated columns from Inkwell Newswatch. I’ve found copied on dozens of other blogs. (I’m flattered, pirates, as long as you give me attribution.) I wrote it in May of 2005, when I was working for an indie publisher in the UK, now defunct, but the principles remain the same. […]
Anne R Allen’s Blog With Ruth Harris