Xlibris Writing Tips| 2 Tips for Writing Secondary Characters
The secondary characters. For every Robin Hood there is a Little John. For every Spiderman an Aunt May. Distinct from the Main Character due to differing focus and importance within a story, the secondary character is nonetheless vital to a story, still having a role to play. But it can be easy to treat them […] READ MORE |
Author: Thomas McKinley
Xlibris Writing Tips| Tips and Examples of Opening Lines
It has been this writer’s experience, that when it comes to novels, fiction, or books of any stripe or subject-matter, the first sentence, the opening lines can be one of the most difficult yet natural things in world. There is a certain, unquantifiable importance so many writers place upon the Opening Lines. The writer’s capacity […] READ MORE |
Xlibris Author| Korie Massey, Berserker
Xlibris Publishing introduces Korie Massey, author of Berserker. Berserker, the first book in the Forsaken World Series is a fantasy fiction novel with gothic/horror undertones centered on an action packed romance between the two main characters. In a world where the gods have been slain thousands of years beforehand by the Berserkers, Leon grows […] READ MORE |
Xlibris Author| Gerald Meyers, Flight of the Peacock Pt 2
Xlibris Publishing returns with Gerald Meyers, author of Flight of the Peacock. Regarding my literary interests, I probably gravitate more toward favorite authors than sources of inspirational guidance. My leisure reading is almost exclusively in the realm of literary fiction with some of my favorite writers being Philip Roth, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carole Oats, […] READ MORE |
Xlibris Reviews| A Net of Dawn and Bones
Urban Fantasy, the genre where elements of the everyday and the fantastical interact and even clash, has experienced somewhat of an oversaturation of late. With some exceptions, a majority of urban fantasy has a tendency towards feeling the same. Such genre pieces as ‘vampire ran nightclubs’ or ‘werewolf street gangs’ have a bad habit of […] READ MORE |