This is an excellent question that came up recently, and the answer isn’t as obvious as you might think. Also, the answer really matters, if you’re an author hoping to be published somewhere, or striving to self-publish wisely. There is no single answer, either: it will depend on the context, on the kind of publication […]
Marketing discovery #1
As you may know, Wordsmith Writing Coaches doesn’t do a lot of things. We don’t do graphic design, or audiobook production, or edit horror (although we can help you with a psychological thriller). We also don’t do book marketing, although we can help you with branding, and with understanding the basics of how to be […]
Best Practices for a Plagiaristic Publishing World
Cristiane Serruya has turned out to be an archetypal 21st-Century plagiarist. She exemplifies genre-fiction plagiarism at its “best”: minimum cost and effort, maximum profit and social success. She had high standards for whose work she plagiarized—only rip off the best—and she “serruyaed” together scenes and passages from more than seventy different sources for each of […]
Plagiarism’s #MeToo Moment Has Arrived
With Nora Roberts’ revelation of Cristiane Serruya’s rampant plagiarism igniting a Twitter firestorm in the romance-genre publishing community, the #MeToo moment for plagiarized authors may have arrived. This time the Bad Guy of the story isn’t men taking sexual advantage of vulnerable women, it’s self-published plagiarist authors taking advantage of vulnerable established authors. How can […]
Building Solid Paragraphs
I see it all the time. A perfectly good scene, shoehorned into just three or four monolithic paragraphs. Or a whole dialogue poured into a single huge paragraph, flat and solid as a concrete sidewalk. Sometimes a writer will err in the opposite direction, smashing a coherent paragraph into smaller shards just to add more […]
Welcome, Ethan Ransom, Screenwriter and Script Doctor!
Wordsmith Writing Coaches is proud to welcome our newest Wordsmith, Ethan Ransom! Ethan grew up in the rolling hills of Virginia where he developed a fascination with examining the grittier side of life, exploring conflicted and complex characters, grounded plots, and natural, authentic dialogue. He focuses on stories of hard-won redemption found in a journey […]
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