How to edit a manuscript

I wrote Return to Desiree Bay in 2014. Back then the working title was House of the Week. I had planned to structure the novel in the same way as the classic romcom movie When Harry Met Sally. The idea was to intersperse vignettes throughout the main narrative. My main character was a real estate…

Writing in close third person

I wrote a 100,000-word novel Return to Desiree Bay in (what I hope is) close third person, all of it from my main character’s point of view. So, what the reader gets is Skye Summerhayes’ perception of the world and the people in it. The reader also, hopefully, gets to experience Skye’s inner-world and understands…

Publishing trends from wizards to vampires to erotica, etc.

I’m sure trends in publishing have been around since the invention of the printing press. But my attention on what’s hot and what’s not in the publishing world started when JK Rowling hit paydirt with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 1997. Wizards and witches became all the rage for more than a decade,…