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What Sets Literary Fiction Apart from Genre Fiction?
“Entanglement – Quantum and Otherwise” was promptly classified as Literary Fiction by my publicist. So the immediate question arises: What is Literary Fiction as compared to Genre Fiction? Yes, the covers are different, genre and literary novels often come in...
What Makes a Novel Hard — and Is a Difficult Novel Worth Reading?
“…riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.” James Joyce - Finnegan’s Wake So begins Finnegan’s Wake, the book that took the great modernist writer James Joyce...
Is There a Right Age to Be a Writer?
In 2010, writer Jim C. Hines conducted a survey of professional novelists. He wanted to know how writers broke into the business, and what it really took to land that first book deal. The results threw up a number of interesting statistics. Only one of the 246...
Paid Book Reviews? Author, Beware.
“Sensational” - “Unmissable” - “A masterpiece” It’s what every author wants to see on the back of their novel — and not just because it’s always a pleasure to see that someone thinks that they’ve done a good job. Those review snippets also tell other people that...