ALISSA YARBROUGH

Daylight may be failing in this latter part of the year, however, I’m still burning the proverbial midnight oil in scratching my head, learning, and forever recalibrating my path-to-publishing with new information. But here's where you can help...

My parents taught me that in most instances, you stick to Christian fiction or classics that usually have some form of morals. It wasn’t an iron rule, and as I think about it now, it makes perfect sense.

Nearly everyone enjoys a smidgen of romance in their entertainment, be it cinema or literature. Why, it's hard to find a storyline that doesn't include a happy ending between a guy and a girl, even if the plot focuses on something else entirely.

You must be well-read in the genre you are entering. As a writer pursuing publishing for my first suspense novel, I have read that...