Greatest Secrets of Successful Commercial Fiction Authors

Using a brief excerpt from chapter 3 of my 150,000 word 3-Vol novel, Children of Salem, I intend to point out key decisions a writer makes as he works. This article is intended to instruct new writers and remind veterans how we do what we do when we do it. For example, this pamphlet begins by tackling:

First use of time and setting as in below...

OK, you have to open the book from here on to become a better writer overnight. This is like working with a veteran author who has published one or more novels for the past thirty years and has taught creative writing for even more years. The author of the Instinct and Edge Series.