Forewarned is forearmed, right?

After telling a good story in the first place, your number one job as a fiction writer is to not sabotage your own work.

Yet many fiction writers lay a minefield that sabotages their own work without even realizing it.

This prolific, professional fiction writer will point out many of those mines and teach you how get rid of them.

Author Intrusion: How Fiction Writers Kill Their Own Work is replete with examples.

In the ten generous chapters the author discusses

• The Physical and Emotional Sense Verbs
• The Problem with Faux Writing Instructors
• Misplaced Modifiers
• Human Parts Do Not Have Human Traits
• Abusing Dialogue Tags & Narrative Beats
• Throw-Away Verbs & Phrases
• How to Avoid Beating the Reader Over the Head
• How to Get the Details Right
• Cycling vs. Editing
• Final Notes

This is a must-have book for any writer who is dedicated to the craft of fiction and who would rather not be a purveyor of the soup sandwich.