In need of a book recommendation? We’ve got you covered! Check out what the WR staff has read & rated by following Writer’s Relief on Goodreads. This week’s books are:

• The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #8), by Louise Penny

• Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk

• Fables, Vol. 1: Legends In Exile, by Bill Willingham

If you have written a book or novel, you’ll want to be sure that it meets the basic criteria of book publishers and literary agents. Follow the rules of genre fiction (whether it’s romance, Western, thriller, fantasy, historical, sci-fi, or horror), and you are more likely to get your book published.

Freddy, Jason, The Wolfman…Classic monsters of the big screen are famous for scaring movie-goers into fits of teeth-chattering terror.

But some of us (raise your hand if you’re guilty) have contracted a serious case of the creeps from monsters that appear in literature.

Is it just us, or are some things scarier when you have to imagine them yourself?

Check out our slide show of literary monsters—if you DARE!!!

Writers can suffer from recurring nightmares: you know, the one where the literary agent at the conference laughs at you in front of your friends, or the one where you’re naked at open mic night (or is that just us?). Fear gets down deep in the human consciousness, and if you as a writer aren’t exploiting fear to the utmost in your short stories or novel, then you’re missing a golden opportunity.

Even if you’re not writing in the horror or thriller genre, a healthy dose of fear is essential in your story. Fear creates rounded characters and lots of page-turning tension. Read on as weshow you how to scare up a little extra fear in your story.

In need of a book recommendation? We’ve got you covered! Check out what the WR staff has read & rated by following Writer’s Relief on Goodreads. This week’s books are:

• The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey, by Mrs. Carver          

• Friends Are Like That, by Patricia Hermes

• The Tombs Of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2), by Ursula K. LeGuin

In need of a book recommendation? We’ve got you covered! Check out what the WR staff has read & rated by following Writer’s Relief on Goodreads. This week’s books are:

• The Castle Of Otranto, by Horace Walpole
  

• The Boy In The Suitcase (Nina Borg #1), by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis

• Pretty Little Liars, by Sara Shepard

Yes, that’s right. ZOMBIES are just WRITERS who didn’t get the help they needed and worked themselves to un-death.

(You’ve probably met some of these zombies at writing conferences; they’re usually at the bar.)

So while other people in the world have to be afraid OF zombies, we writers have to be afraid of TURNING INTO THEM.

But there IS an antidote!