Why Your Main Character Falls Flat: Do They Think About the “Big Questions” of Life?
Sometimes beta readers and reviewers say things like “I just didn’t resonate with the main character” or “The protagonist was…
11 Problems with Multiple Point of View Characters That I See as a Book Editor
Books with multiple (3+) points of view (POV) have become increasingly popular in the past couple decades, especially in massive…
Write Me “Boy Books”: Letter From a Book Editor
Princes and strategists, martial champions and war heroes, grit, sweat, brawls, and schemes. Since the beginning of time, we have…
How to Self-Edit Your Book Using a Manuscript Assessment
So, your editor has sent you the manuscript assessment for your story, and it’s a good 10+ pages long. It’s…
English Book Editor for International and ESL Authors
Are you an author who speaks English as a second language? Welcome! Whether you’re dreaming of publishing your book with…
“Toxic Femininity” – Where “Strong Female Characters” Went Wrong
How is it that the word I’ve found to best describe “strong female characters” has largely been used in the…
23 Author Moms Share Tips For How to Write a Book While Parenting
Being an author is a super difficult journey, and so is being a mom! So how can we do both…
Character Development Questions – Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced
A character has popped into your head, and now you want to write them! How do you develop this character…
YA Books Suffer a Plague of Cut-and-Paste Personalities and Reader-Insert Characters
By Caylah Coffeen Fantasy and science fiction have become more unique and diverse in the past 5 years alone. As…
The Problem with Multiple Point of View Characters – Part 1: Harder to Hook Readers
By Caylah Coffeen You have to do much more work to get a reader invested With every major point of…
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