I used to review a lot: many, many books for Kirkus Reviews, and also for newspapers, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. 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. However, if you're just not that kind of person, you can read some excerpts at the website. It's sort of an encyclopedia of mistakes every beginning writer makes. About ten years ago, I took everything I figured out reading hundreds, possibly thousands, of published and unpublished novels, and wrote How Not To Write A Novel with Sandra Newman. I used to review a lot: many, many books for Kirkus Reviews, and also for newspapers I moved to NYC in the eighties to be where they made books, and I've been working in publishing, either writing or editing, pretty much ever since. I moved to NYC in the eighties to be where they made books, and I've been working in publishing, either writing or editing, pretty much ever since.
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