The Art of Making a Good Match

I've been dealing with writing romance lately. Not the genre but the plot component, the seemingly inescapable phenomenon that crops up when writing fantasy, science-fiction, historical fiction, and just about any other genre, provided you have a few single characters floating around. And I've written about how authors can woefully get a romance wrong before, and … Continue reading The Art of Making a Good Match

For Better or Worse: Readers, Books, and the Marriage between Them

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a reader with free time must be in want of a good book…and thus begins the curious relationship between reader and the written word, much like that of a courting couple. You pick up a book and flip through its pages or read the back cover: the first … Continue reading For Better or Worse: Readers, Books, and the Marriage between Them