Nina Munteanu

What’s Stopping You From Publishing Your Book?

Yes, I’m a successfully published author with acclaimed novels, short stories and essays published all over the world.  But I almost didn’t get there. What if I told you that I never read as a kid, I was the worst speller in my school and I used bad grammar? [...]

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One of the most important devices to spice up narrative and increase pace is the use of dialogue. There’s a reason for this: we read dialogue more quickly; it’s written in more fluid, conversational English; it tends to create more white space on a page with less dense text, more pleasing to the reader’s eye. [...]

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Are you just starting to write? Or better yet, nervously thinking of sending your cherished tome out? You may wish to do one more round of edits and apply these five things that I guarantee will improve your story:
1. Voice: This is the feel and tone that applies to the overall book (narrative voice) and [...]

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Have you ever wondered how an editor decides not to read your cherished tome past the second paragraph of the first page and has pegged you as a beginning writer? This used to really bug me… Well, as a published author and occasional mentor, I do from time to time read manuscripts (please don’t send [...]

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O Muses, O high genius, aid me now!O memory that engraved the things I saw,Here shall your worth be manifest to all!—Dante Alighieri, Canto II of the Inferno
As a published author of over a dozen short stories and three novels (with more coming!) I often get asked how and where I draw my inspiration from. [...]

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