Author Archive: Heather Adams
Five Ways to Increase Micro-Tension
How do we keep readers invested in what will happen next? As writers, we want readers on the edge of their seat, even in scenes that don’t justify heart-pounding action. Micro-tension, a term I first encountered in Donald Maass’ The Fire in Fiction, offers a solution. Recently I’ve been working on micro-tension in my own […]
Publishing With a University Press: A Fiction Writer’s Perspective
What do university presses publish? Although university presses focus on scholarly works, some also publish books meant for a more general audience—poetry, essays, memoirs, short story collections, and, in certain cases, novels. These titles tend to fall on the literary, rather than commercial, side of the spectrum. My path to publication My first novel, Maranatha […]
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