Best writing advice: Finish your book!

Over at the fantastic web site, Women’s Fiction Writers , debut novelist Kim Izzo, author of The Jane Austen Marriage Manual , offers some important, simple advice to aspiring authors – Finish your book ! Kim’s advice is to get it all down from start to finish, without getting too bogged down with perfect phrasing…

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Rejections can be inspiring?

Okay, so we all know an aspiring author must develop a thick skin. Critique groups dish out criticism, so do our beta readers. And on top of that, we’re probably our own worst critics. We’ve all sent out work that we’ve slaved over, but that just doesn’t wow an agent or editor and we have…

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