I know that money isn't a good reason to write, but I am wondering if writing as a new author is even profitable anymore. What makes a book successful? It seems less that it is the story or prose and more "Oprah's Book Club" or some other major publicity. See: 50 Shades Series...horrible books ...

I just finished "The House of the Seven Gables" by Hawthorne. I was struck by how often he switched tenses. Mostly the narration was in past tense, but then he would switch to present or even future tense. Sometimes the tense would change for a sentence or a paragraph; other times it would cha...

My name is Gregg. When I was 16, I self-published a fictional novel and I earned a small amount of royalties as a result. Now, however, I intend to sell my manuscript to a publisher and am currently completing a novel that I began back in 2009 and I have completed and submitted a manuscript for a...