My updated query letter and synopsis are being reviewed by an editor
My wife and 2-time author Kate had great success working with an editor on a book proposal. I’m hoping for similar success with my second round of querying.
Chad S. White
An aspiring sci-fi novelist. Trying to make the leap into fiction after writing 5 non-fiction books and thousands of articles. Tech industry veteran. Former business and tech journalist.
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Bad advice? Don’t use ‘said’
What do you think? Should “said” be the default speech tag or should writers be varying up their speech tags?
Book Review: ‘The Sense of Style’ by Steven Pinker
“The Sense of Style” by Steven Pinker will undo all the bad advice you got when you were forced to read “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White in school.
Confession: I hate anti-heroes
The real world is full of anti-heroes, so I don’t want them in my fiction. I also don’t have any anti-heroes in any of my works in progress.
The two lessons I learned from the ‘Shy Girl’ fiasco
The “Shy Girl” episode has highlighted two needs for authors: (1) to maintain the chain of custody over your manuscript, and (2) to publicly document your work.
Reflections on the 1-year anniversary of launching my author platform
One of the things that’s been really fascinating to see is that very different content rises to the top on different platforms.
Is it possible for non-creators to truly value creative work?
Piracy used to be about stealing from the middleman. Today, it mostly just hurt authors, artists, and other creators.
Using Google Trends to track language evolution
Language evolves. Google Trends is a helpful way to track that evolution and make sure you’re up on common usage.
I used to be a copy editor and I would never rely 100% on self-editing
I have years of experience copy editing and I still hire professional copy editors to work on my books. Here’s why …
How many of my manuscript’s 600+ em dashes did my copy editor cut?
With so many writers actively curtailing their use of em dashes out of fear of being accused of using AI, I was worried what my copy editor would say.
Celeste Ng on Race, Empathy, & Writing
Author Celeste Ng spoke about race, empathy, and her writing processes at the WBUR Festival in Boston on May 30.