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Author Salon Reviews the Lit Scene with Jill Marsal

From Author Salon Interviews - Robin Stuart Interviewer

Jill Marsal is a founding partner of the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency … Read more

A STUDY IN THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW
      Lessons and Readings Necessary To The Creation of a Competitive Commercial Manuscript

   By Michael Neff

Let's get ri… Read more

Michael Neff of Algonkian, along with other editors and advisers, contributed content and form to the new NOVEL WRITING PROGRAM created by Author Salon.

As a matter of fact, he wrote the intro, which reflects hi… Read more


Author Salon Reviews the Lit Scene with Kimberley Cameron

From Author Salon Interviews With Prime Movers In The Literary World

Kimberley Cameron grew up loving books—going to th… Read more


Author Salon Reviews the Lit Scene with Peter Rubie  

From Author Salon Interviews With Prime Movers In The Literary World

CEO of Fine Print Literary, Peter Rubie specia… Read more

Reeve drives north from San Francisco to the rugged town of Jefferson, where she meets Tilly’s family and establishes an instant bond. But gaining the girl’s trust has a price. Tilly swears Reeve to secrecy and … Read more

STORYBOARD CONSIDERATIONS FOR PRODUCING EFFECTIVE SCENES
    by Michael Neff

If you're working on a commercial fiction or narrative non-fiction manuscript, you will benefit if you view your pr… Read more


Author Salon Talks to Katie Shea of Donald Maass Literary

From Author Salon Interviews - Interviewer Martina Newhook

Katie Shea joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2011. She sp… Read more

Nabokov Defeats the Quiet, And Graves Conquers the Brits

Using Nabokov (Lolita) and Graves (Claudius The God) we examine a quiet setting and circumstance made lively, and a lively circumstance and setting made c… Read more

KICK-ASS AND LOVE-POWERED HEROINES IN YA FANTASY
    By Paula Williams

With the recent hype of HUNGER GAMES and BRAVE, it’s evident the current generation of teenage readers and moviegoers g… Read more

As the wraiths closed in, I caught Brady’s panic, eyes darting between them and me. One wraith lifted Al by his neck, opening his maw unnaturally wide. Frayed teeth jutted from bony gums. Lips disappeared. Or did… Read more

Binney was nervous and had to force himself to answer Maric civilly and calmly.  He could hear the rest of the team, inside, tearing his life apart.  Another agent joined them, and Maric roughly instructe… Read more

From the Series of AUTHOR SALON CONNECT Reviews of authors and contemporary literature.
"ISAAC" - Ivan Goldman
    by Sheila Riley In “ISAAC,” by Ivan Goldman, Faust collides with the Old T… Read more

Strong Narrative Through Synergy : Examples of Powerful Fiction Narrative

The art of great fiction writing (and why shouldn't we be great?) demands the writer must produce powerful, energetic narrative, and not … Read more

There must be eight or nine priests. I expected them to come, but not the force of their hands or their silent, stern faces. My legs shake uncontrollably as the old priest sizes me up, a dark glance from my bare fe… Read more