Fred Johnson

Fred is an editor, blurb writer, and all-round books guy. He helps authors take their manuscripts and cover copy from good to perfect and, in his spare time, can be found lurking in libraries.
What Authors Need To Know When Writing About Law – Part 1 - Lady Justice grins at the reader.
Writing
Fred Johnson

What Authors Need To Know When Writing About Law – Part 1

Law is one of the basic cornerstones of modern civilization, and its omnipresence is something to which most of us have grown used. Whether you have much contact with cops, lawyers, judges, and criminals or not, you’ll know enough about the ephemera and aesthetic of modern law to be able to conjure a hazy image

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5 Ways Zadie Smith Can Help You Improve Your Writing - Zadie Smith waves at the reader, a mouse and a tooth in her thought bubble.
Writing
Fred Johnson

5 Ways Zadie Smith Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Zadie Smith is one of those writers whose success story is so staggering that you can’t help but resent her a little. Her first novel, the wildly successful and intimidatingly brilliant White Teeth, was published when Smith was just twenty-four, and it’s rumored she received a £250,000 advance based on only a synopsis and two

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Why You Should Finish Your First Draft As Quickly As Possible - A writer runs past a line of pages, dragging a pen across them.
Writing
Fred Johnson

Why You Should Finish Your First Draft As Quickly As Possible

If there’s one writer who’s (thankfully) incapable of shutting up about the writing process, it’s beloved American horror icon Stephen King. In his fantastic and much-quoted On Writing, he says, The first draft of a book – even a long one – should take no more than three months, the length of a season. –

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What Authors Need To Know About True Crime - A murderer drags along a bulging refuse sack.
Writing
Fred Johnson

What Authors Need To Know About True Crime

Ever since Truman Capote popularized the genre in 1966 with In Cold Blood, America has been obsessed with true crime, and that obsession has since spread across the world. The term refers to a particular genre in film and literature in which a real-world crime is treated like the central plot device in a work

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