Goodreads asked Andrew Huff:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Andrew Huff There's really only two things you need to do: 1) study about writing, and 2) WRITE. I can't tell you how important it was that I spent the time reading about how to write fiction (Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View by Jill Elizabeth Nelson, Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card, The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass, just to name a few) as well as taking courses in the craft (mostly through involvement with the American Christian Fiction Writers). But its also really just true that you can't learn how to write without actually sitting down to do it. A Cross to Kill is actually the second complete novel I've written, the first not ready to actually be published. I had to learn how to do it writing the first, then write the one that actually had a chance!

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