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My novel THE BODY SCOUT is out today. A post about my confused and chaotic novel writing process.
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How revising the opening can finish your novel
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On Salman Rushdie, author finances, and Substack as fiction publisher
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In my last newsletter, I wrote about the importance of persistence in writing: I might go so far as to say that persistence is the most important trait…
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All the tips about submissions, taxes, queries, and careers I can give you in one place
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What's so wrong with making the reader want to turn the page?
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Do characters really need to change in fiction?
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Every few months, someone on Twitter hears that the CIA helped fund the Iowa MFA program in the 1960s and soon the discourse has decided that all creat…
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Print book sales continue to rise. Did the publishing industry actually get the streaming era right?
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Some thoughts on Isabel Fall, social media criticism, and the puritan art police
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A look at Aira's "no revision" novel-writing method
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Looking at Moorcock's famous advice for writing an entire novel in under a week
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