It's easy to do--secondaries, villains, plot and world building need time and space and sometimes, they're just good old fashioned fun. But if your book is about everything but your main characters, not to mention their romance, then readers and editors will both leave the book wondering why they read it.
So how do you stay focused on your Mains? How much time with them is needed? What can you do to ensure your book is directed where it should be? To help us answer these questions--and the ones you come up with as well--we have editor Shana Smith! So bring your thoughts and concerns and don't forget your notebooks!
ABOUT THE EDITOR:
SHANA SMITH, HARLEQUIN DESIRE AND HARLEQUIN ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Shana Smith is the assistant editor for both Harlequin Desire and Harlequin Romantic Suspense. She loves the variety of books she gets to work on, the fantastic authors shes built relationships with and the excitement of finding fresh, new voices. Fiction has always been her first love, and she almost cant believe her good luck that she gets paid to read it every day. Authors shes brought to the company include Andrea Laurence (Desire), C.J. Miller (Romantic Suspense), Melissa Cutler (Romantic Suspense), Michelle Major (Special Edition) and 2011 New Voices winner Natalie Charles (Romantic Suspense). For writing tips and a look inside an editors daily work lifeas well as, at times, discussions about the Muppets, Gilmore Girls, Starbucks lattes and the music of Adeleyou can follow Shana on Twitter(@shana smith).
