Ask the Author: Carolyn Chambers Clark
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Carolyn Chambers Clark
I'm querying a couple of young adult books, and finishing a graphic novel and thriller. I'm looking for people who want to be beta readers who provide feedback and ideas and even character names for upcoming novels, readers to review my published books, and people who want to receive my newsletter about what I'm working on, free samples of upcoming books, and news about how to pre-order and read my books before the general public does.
Carolyn Chambers Clark
Read, read, read in your genres(s) and see what works. Be positive and get helpful feedback from your critique group or editor, then revise, revise, revise.
Make sure your first sentence grabs the reader and the next sentences continue to shock, surprise, and/or delight.
Write a series of mystery, romance or whatever books to keep readers interested in your stories.
Make sure your first sentence grabs the reader and the next sentences continue to shock, surprise, and/or delight.
Write a series of mystery, romance or whatever books to keep readers interested in your stories.
Carolyn Chambers Clark
It makes me feel sane and hopeful in an insane world.
Carolyn Chambers Clark
I don't get writer's block. I'm always working on querying one or two books and writing one or two others, so if one bamboozles me, I move on to something else. Even book promotion or reading someone else's book. Any of those clear my head and make me want to go back to writing.
Carolyn Chambers Clark
I have so many ideas and am currently working on three books: two are finished, but being revised after critiques; the third is almost written.
Carolyn Chambers Clark
The news...of course, I've fictionalized it, and am still receiving critiques on it before I do a major query-to-agents push
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