“When a hot trend turns into a sub-category, new strictures arise along with it. Tropes turn into shortcuts, character paradigms become cardboard cutouts. Publishing pulls the bandwagon, true enough, but when feel-alike fiction floods the market its impact declines because… — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
“When a hot trend turns into a sub-category, new strictures arise along with it. Tropes turn into shortcuts, character paradigms become cardboard cutouts. Publishing… — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
“What shapes us and gives our lives meaning are not the things that happen to us, but their significance. Life lessons, revelations, changes, and… — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
“It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.” — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
“For me, where genre ends and literature begins doesn’t matter. What matters is whether a given novel hits me with high impact. If it… — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
“What do we mean when we say “meaning”? For our purposes it’s not one thing, a single gem of wisdom. It’s the stream of… — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
