Devon Halliday
Devon Halliday, Karin Gillespiewriter, editor, teacher, & former literary agent offering advice on publishing, craft, & the writing life
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Jazz Up Your Dialogue With These Five Weird Tricks
We owe today’s missive to , who commented on one of my recent posts, requesting a post about how to write good dialogue.
Dialogue doesn’t crop up as often you’d expect in the Craft Advice corner of Substack. Maybe that’s because writers ar...
Why Publishers Prefer Debut Novels
I’ve been on vacation the last few weeks, and like any self-respecting vacationer, I brought more books than I got around to. But I did read Laura B. McGrath’s new book Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction. If you a...
How to Write a Speculative Story
Last week’s post was inspired by a bad novel. This week’s post is inspired by a bad short story collection. (I’ve been reading again!)
The stories in this collection were overwritten, underthought, and allegorically flimsy. They went on to...
Bad Craft
I haven’t been reading much contemporary fiction. Usually I feel guilty about this. But then sometimes I read a fresh just-published novel that’s getting a lot of hype and I think: This, this is why I don’t read more contemporary fiction!...
How to Write, How to Publish, & How to Stay Sane
I started this substack in the summer of 2025. Since then, I’ve written almost-weekly posts about craft, publishing, and the writing life.
I write about whatever obsesses me in a given moment, so the archive of my posts is wildly out of or...
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Writer and former publishing professional, offering hard truths and hot takes about the writing business.
Karin Gillespie is the author of nine novels (Simon and Schuster, Henry Press and self-published) and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Converse College.
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