Karsten

Not a huge fan of protagonists who look like lingerie models. It's unrealistic, shameless wish-fulfilment and horribly overdone, and it also feeds into the teeth-grating Beauty Equals Goodness theme:

Just a quick note: Shina (angels-symphony) and I are running the Publication or Perish usergroup. Hope we can help users of this thread and anyone else seeking publication.

Hi Ben, Just a few quick comments on the opening. I'm slightly confused by the level of historical accuracy here. I love the fact that you're using the original German ...

I'd go with Karsten's advice actually :D :wink: Ideas are ten a penny. The discipline to see something through to the end? Much rarer. I think it's tempting for a ...

Backside on chair. Hands on keyboard. Stay there (with appropriate gaps for sleeping, eating, going to school, etc) until you reach the end of the novel.

I think the problem here is that you've taken the genre of epic fantasy, but then reclassified the really good ones (like Martin) as something else to support your central ...

I have recived some very exciting news. I am going to be a published author soon. A publisher accepted my book. I am nineteen and love piano, dance and singing. ...

I'm trying not to give my obligatory rant about how third person can be every bit as deep as first person. :P Pick whichever. The only difference is the pronouns.

I'm wondering if there is such a thing as a paranormal romance in which a human boy falls for a female supernatural character. I don't see many of those around ...

TV Tropes' Speculative Fiction Tropes . The one cliche that annoys me the most is the "Orphan Who's Secretly A Wizard/Princess/Spy." *confetti* All of these characters have mysterious pasts, parents ...

Paranormal romance is very far from a rare subgenre - it's enormously popular and selling very well at the moment. It's a sister of urban fantasy. Both genres are set ...

Just a heads up. Term is starting again and I'm buried in university work, so I may not be reviewing any more. Thanks!

It's really difficult to critique something where the capitalisation, spelling, grammar and punctuation are all broken and where the characters don't even have names. You're asking people to spend the

Just to be mindful. The max distance most would be able to see should still be able to see it from far away but not excessively far. Height of mountain ...

Before I write, I plan. One-line hook. One-paragraph hook. Themes. Comparison titles. Draft query letter. Lists of characters, settings and other stuff like magic systems. Three-act dramatic structure