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Pride and Prejudice as a YA novel

Consider Pride and Prejudice as a YA novel. Not only the archetypal romance, but the mother of Young Adult fiction, […]

A masterwork that birthed modern science fiction, horror and psychological thrillers, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a cautionary and morality tale.

Nesting sub-plots in parentheses: it’s a way to ensure all the plot threads are tied off in the course of

Find Your Readers Summit 2025 is almost here. The returning Indie author event from Daniel David Wallace begins August 2nd.

In order to write a successful story, you need the worst protagonist for the plot. Hear me out: the main

So many layers, where to begin? Wild Seed piles on complex themes; power, identity,the ethics of eugenics. There’s an exploration

Elizabeth A. Lynn’s 1980 award-winner Watchtower opens her Arun trilogy as a literary-fantasy of low magic and gender-fluidity. If E.M.

Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic horror novel Dracula set the template for modern vampires. Forget the over-saturation of pop culture cliches.

No matter how well you write your beginning and middle, don’t mess up the ending. The end of a story

C. J. Cherryh’s melancholy sci-fantasy Chronicles of Morgaine travels across and between worlds way before Grimdark became a genre of