Grab your reader’s attention from page one! Learn how to grab your reader’s attention from the first page of your short story, novel, or personal essay! Many editors and agents never read more than a few hundred words of any submission or query, so having a compelling and well-crafted first page is critical to getting […]
A crash course on the ins and outs of Gothic fiction! Gothic fiction is a literary genre that has spawned and inspired everything from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the weird fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and the heroines in the works of Shirley Jackson—all the way up to contemporary writers like Joyce […]
