Now, however, Amazon is using its leverage as a retail giant to force publishers to use BookSurge. The result if they don’t? Amazon will turn off the “Buy” button on their book listings.

WARNING: Content may be incoherent or otherwise unintelligible due to fever. By proceeding further, you agree not to hold author accountable for anything she might say in this posting. (Unless it’s good. Then she gets all credit.) You have been warned!

Okay, if you’ve ever tried to write a synopsis, you know that the title of this post is a big, fat lie. Synopses are hard to write. How do you whittle a 400 page book down to a few pages? How can you convey the brilliance of your characters in such little space?

If you only buy two writing books (you’re already buying Strunk & White’s Elements of Style, remember), Self-Editing for Fiction Writers needs to be the second one.

Here’s something a lot of folks don’t know: St. Patrick wasn’t actually Irish. He was English.

Yesterday, my first ever guest blog post was published at Raivyn’s Idiot’s Guide to Blogging!

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