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Great vs. Good Writing

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart September 16, 2019 Fiction Writing / WritersLeave a comment

I’m 1.5 chapters into Illona Andrews’ book Iron and Magic and I’m already finding it to be 10 times better than the cozy mystery I’m half-way through. The characters are stronger and because of that the world feels more real (and the Andrews’ book is a fantasy while the cozy …

Copyright, Stolen Work, and Angry Authors

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart March 1, 2019 Fiction Writing / Reading / WritersLeave a comment

If you keep up with Writer Twitter (the area of twitter posts dominated by #amwriting and similar hashtags) you know about the latest upset about a Kindle author who plagiarized a whole group of romance writers, and used ghost writers to whack the stolen passages into a single (bad) book. …