Derek Leman's Blog

If anything led me to read Senlin Ascends, it was the reviews. If you’d asked me, “Hey I know a well-written steampunk novel with great characters; would you like to borrow a copy?” I’d have turned you down. Airships. Muzzle-loading […]

Do you want readers to be gripped by your novel or short story? Then the stakes have to be death. So says James Scott Bell in Write Your Novel from the Middle. Death? you ask. He says it doesn’t have […]

Do you want your book, short story, or novel to open in the right way? Do you want to capture reader interest in the first ten seconds? Of course you do. So I found a writer who has a lot […]