The Chopping Blog

Arthur Conan Doyle arrived on the scene when detective fiction was still in its infancy.

Our next book, Story Skeleton: The Classics, is just a month away!

The easiest way to think about POV is as a lens that you hand the reader and say, here, you will now be viewing the world through this slightly warped piece of glass.

"For Hasting the Avenger, fame and glory were supposed to last forever."

"I've signed some great books that had terrible query letters."

A huge congrats to our client Margaret Mantor on the release of her young-adult science fantasy romance novel!

"I'd love to see a literary drama that unfolds like a mystery!"

A huge congrats to our client Jane Fawley on the release of her thriller, Where the Bruised Pieces Go.

According to Waugh, a convert to Catholicism, this is a book about grace.

"It is definitely worth interrogating your prologue to ensure it really works for the reader’s experience and not against it!"

A huge congrats to our client Angela Douglas on the upcoming release of her thriller!

Heart of Darkness is the most frequently analyzed work of literature in universities and colleges, probably because Conrad doesn’t spell things out for his readers.