Friday, April 20, 2007
The Secret of Good Literary Fiction
This sums it up, does it not?
From the website of a leading British literary agency which eschews anything as vulgar as genre fiction. An agency that seeks out only top quality literary fiction.
We are looking for novels that have:
A good title; an engaging story with a beginning, middle and end; vivid, memorable characters whom one cares about; superb dialogue; a transporting sense of time and place; accuracy of detailing; psychological plausibility; an intriguing beginning and memorable ending.
In addition, what fills us with joy is the writer who has a palpable love of language, who always chooses precisely the right words, eschews clichés, handles pacing with the skill of a dancer and musician, conjures up moods and atmospheres with an apparently invisible wand, and whose spelling, punctuation and grammar are immaculate.
Hurry! Read the guidelines and rush your manuscript off now here.
# posted by Ellis : 7:40 AM
