Info Dumps, Back Story, Maid-Butler and AYKB Pitfalls

Info Dumps, Back Story, Maid-Butler and AYKB Pitfalls

On Monday, I talked about the “false engines” of starting books too soon. Today, I’m dealing with info dumps and handling back story.

In my WIP, the 8th Blackthorne novel, my protagonists are new to readers. The hero, Marv “Fish” Frisch, has been mentioned in a previous book, but he was more of a walk-on, so other than his name and the fact that he works for Blackthorne, readers won’t know anything about him. He was part of the opening ga...