A Little Advice…

I recently had the opportunity to do some contest judging for an unpublished author contest. And many of the entries had the same types of problems, so thought I'd share some of my general opinions here.

Now I'm no expert, and not an editor. But I am a reader and know what I like and what I don't and I've been writing long enough after 40 something books to know what the common mistakes are.

The mistake I saw the most in these entries was lack of pacing. Lack of decent pacing will kill a...