about this author
I've been working as a writer and editor for a while, the last ten years largely as a ghostwriter/book doctor/editor-for-hire. My own novel, Age of Consent, was published in 2006. Meanwhile, I took everything I figured out reading hundreds of unpublished manuscripts over the years, and wrote How Not To Write A Novel with my friend Sandra Newman. It's sort of an encyclopedia of mistakes every beginning writer makes. It's very funny. Really. You should take my word for it. However, if you're just not that kind of person, you can check out some excerpts at the website. I can't guarantee you'll write a good novel if you read it, but it would be very hard not to write a better novel. But, enough about me and my books...
I used to review a lot: many, many books for Kirkus Reviews, and a handful for various newspapers. So I have all these reviews sitting on my hard drive, and I thought I'd post some of them here, which I'm mentioning to explain why some of my reviews read exactly like reviews that were written for Kirkus.
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