For the last few months I have been interning at Entangled Publishing. It has been such a cool experience. If you want to get into the publishing business in any sort of way, I would recommend trying to find an internship. I feel like it’s the best way to see what it takes to be published and common mistakes authors tend to make so that you could avoid them in your own work.
As I read more and more submissions, I find that one of the most common problems is that authors don’t make the characters move. There is a lot of dialogue and internal thoughts but nothing is happening. And after reading about fifty or so pages of this, I am about ready to throw the book at the wall. I know in real life people do a lot of sitting around and talking but in a book it…
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