Beta Readers: When, What & How?

Beta Readers: When, What & How?

You’ve finished your book. Again. This time, you really need some people who aren’t your friends or your family to read your manuscript and provide you with some objective feedback and perspective. While you can always hire someone like me to critique your manuscript,...
Banned Books

Banned Books

For a writing coach, I feel that I haven’t read as many of the classics, or even today’s bestsellers, as I should. So, imagine my surprise when I realized that I had read most of the books on the  Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, a...
The Benefits of Reading Literary Fiction

The Benefits of Reading Literary Fiction

I love fiction. I love working with coaching clients writing their novels. And from easy-breezy beach reads to literary fiction masterpieces, I love reading or listening to a novel, and submerging into the story. Not everyone feels that way. I have a number of friends...