Posted on March 28, 2022 at 9:47 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

No matter what genre you write, if you’ve included scenes at a medical facility, you’ll want to read this post....

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writing advice

Posted on March 25, 2022 at 8:28 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

All authors, not just those enrolled in Kindle Direct Publishing, can now use Amazon Ads. Penny Sansevieri of Author Marketing Experts...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Posted on March 24, 2022 at 2:52 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Your mileage likely varies on how useful process blogs are to you. That is, Julia Whelan's recounting of beginning, struggling,...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Posted on March 24, 2022 at 9:19 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Book coach and writer Susan DeFreitas has raised the question before of whether it's really the plot that's at issue...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Posted on March 23, 2022 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It may have seemed to you, in recent years, that romance novels had to recount, in all sorts of detail,...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Romance, Writer's Digest

Posted on March 23, 2022 at 11:34 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Authors have been cautioned to avoid info dumps — and like most advice, this is easier said than done. Because...

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Posted on March 22, 2022 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The silver lining of a number of uncomfortable emotions is that they can be put to good use in fiction....

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Tagged As: Characters

Posted on March 22, 2022 at 8:48 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Flashbacks, like many literary devices, can be powerful when done right, but jarring and awkward when executed poorly. Editor Tiffany...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Posted on March 21, 2022 at 3:29 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It's so easy to look back and realize that you should've done something differently, whether you're thinking about the path...

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Posted on March 21, 2022 at 9:24 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Being single doesn't mean you're sad or lonely — we all know that (and plenty of us live it). That...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Romance, Writer's Digest