Congratulations to Marianne Evans!Her entry has been chosen as the winner of our Hearts Crossing contest. Entrants were given the cover (sans author name) along with a synopsis. As suspected, the entries...
Hearts Crossing Contest Winner Announced
Research
I’ve long been a fan of American history and the Old West and enjoy reading accounts and memoirs of people from times past. Making history come alive is one of a fiction writer's jobs. Researching is easy with the Internet. Here are a few sites for other aficionados:http://www.rarenewspapers.com/...
Manuscript formatting tips for MS Word
I see a great many manuscripts come through where some fundamental--and some more advanced--formatting techniques have not been utilized, but would greatly help the manuscript. So, today, I'm going to give a few tips on using Microsoft Word to your advantage. This will not only help you to present a...
Conflict development: ensuring proper progression
Lately, I’ve been seeing a goodly number of manuscripts where there are conflict discrepancies. For example (Not from a ms. submitted to White Rose): Jane Heroine works for XYZ church. She’s enjoying her job and spending time with Joe Hero, another employee of the church. Then, one day—several chapters...
As A Woman Thinketh
Lately I’ve seen a recurring theme in some of the manuscripts I am reading. I have written about it before in the general terms, but specifics might be more helpful. Let us first start with a definition. The following description is taken from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/heroineHer•o•ine1. A woman...
Covert Emotion/Building Character
I am a character-driven editor – give me a good, solid character and you will grab my attention from the beginning of your novel. How can you build character with covert emotions? By allowing the hero/heroine to respond without consciously thinking about what is happening around them. When people...
