LAURENCE MACNAUGHTON

Tag: Writing Tips

  • Behind the Bestseller: Robert Buettner (Part 2)

    Bestselling author and all-around nice guy Robert Buettner is back on You Can Write A Novel to give us a glimpse of what it’s like to be the author of a “big” book — and he tells us how he tackled writing something entirely new on the heels of the critically acclaimed Jason Wander series. …

  • Game of Cages: Harry Connolly guests on Sci Fi Bookshelf

    Harry Connolly is the author of Child of Fire, one of Publishers Weekly’s “Best 100 Books of 2009.”  It’s an urban fantasy packed with sorcery, monsters, a gripping mystery and a tough-guy hero in over his head.  Now, Harry Connolly is back with another Twenty Palaces novel, Game of Cages, which hits shelves today.  I…

  • The unstoppable Sherrilyn Kenyon

    #1 New York Times best-selling author Sherrilyn Kenyon is a self-professed “pantser” who writes by the seat of her pants.  You know, the type of writing where you start with blank paper and fill it up as you go, rather than plotting it out beforehand.  In my extremely unscientific, informal poll of writers I know,…

  • Writing Advice from Twilight’s Melissa Rosenberg

    Melissa Rosenberg is the screenwriter of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and other vampire movies you’ve never heard of (yeah, right).  Lest you think that her lofty position exempts her from getting scathing feedback on her work (it doesn’t) or has granted her a bullet-proof ego (it hasn’t), check out her Golden Rules of Screenwriting.  In…