Midnight Hours and Poe’s Raven: Old Cops Out to Pasture
The graveyard shift's first four hours unfold like a switchblade in a back alley brawl, the night sky morphing from a hue as black as Poe's Raven to searing white as jagged shards of lightning arc overhead. It's when the nocturnal creatures…
FREE CLASS! – An Agent’s Point of View: Developmental Editing, Query Letters and Agent Submission Tips
Developmental Editing from an Agent’s Point of View, & Query Letters, and Agent Submission Tips
Instructor: Andrea Hurst, literary agent and editor
Registration – FREE
When: May 18, 2024 at 1 P.M. EST
Where: Writers' Police Academy…
Dead Women Sometimes Cry in the Rain, And Baby Socks
Never start a story with the weather.
I've heard this many times over the years.
Even Elmore Leonard kicked off his "Don't-do-it" list with a rule about the weather.
Never open a book with the weather.
Avoid prologues.
Never…