"Voice" is an elusive concept. It's one of those "you know it when you see it" things. As a reader, the author's "voice" is, to me, how good they are...
How difficult is it to find your own voice? Do you feel as if you have? As if you haven't? How much like yourself should your protagonist be? I feel...
Publishing is not local friends meeting up for coffee. It just isn't. It's a business, and many authors never meet most of the people they work with...
I'm torn on whether I think he's going to pardon any of the rioters who were arrested. They are nobodies who can do nothing for him (or to him), and...