Your author voice connects your reader to your story through vocabulary, syntax, tone, and point of view that make your phrases, sentences, and paragraphs flow.
How to Control Narrative Pacing in Your Novel
Four elements to help you control narrative pacing in your novel — language, conflict, stakes, alternating scenes.
How To Work Twists, Turns, and Reveals in Your Mystery
Control information for your reader. Be intentional about organizing how and when clues, information, and contradictory information appear,
Who’s On First In Your Story?
Tips to master your story’s beginning. Character, setting, voice, action, and the first sentence all work together to draw your reader into your story.
Your Mystery’s Hidden Villain
Unlike other novels, the mystery’s villain must stay hidden until the final reveal. Here’s how to keep them secret until the end.
Author, Go Public as You Write Your First Book
Give your current manuscript a head start in the book world by working on your author platform as you write.
Keys to Start Your Mystery Novel
Who, what, where, and action are keys to get your reader into the story from the start. Save narrative description and backstory for later. Now is the time to show your reader you tell a good story.
Master Your Plotlines
Deepen your novel, use multiple plotlines. How to develop subplots for your story.
How to Introduce Your Detective to Devoted Mystery Readers
Without an immediate connection with your sleuth, a reader is not motivated to follow them solving the puzzle in the rest of your novel.
First-Time Writer Mistakes to Avoid So Readers Love Your Story
How to create a great protagonist, smooth dialogue, keep readers engaged, and trim info-dump to write a novel readers love.