Gone with the Wind

Do-Overs: The Bad Guy Has a Moment
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Do-Overs: The Bad Guy Has a Moment

ByHeather Scott Partington

Complicated bad guys are nothing new. There’s something delicious about complex entertainment; we’re able to envision ourselves in the shoes of the antihero and exact revenge or serve righteous justice, but we’re also able to vicariously live through their actions that lie outside the boundaries of acceptable behavior. When it comes to our villains, we…

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The Ploughshares Round Down: How To Tell People What Your Book Is About

ByEric Nelson

Last week, I received a fiction pitch I knew I would reject a few lines in. It contained the phrase, “after he discovers a family secret long since buried.” (Or something like that.) I wrote back to the author and admitted that I was passing because, while other people might like books about that, I’m…