The excellent ‘Murderati’ Blog is not only for Crime Writers.

This week there is an excellent article on how to stand out from the Slush Pile – by understanding what will give your work that special magic which makes the difference.

Key take aways for me?

* Keep Building the Stakes to create a ‘page-turning’ quality

* Character motivation is key.

but then again, we already knew that, did we not? It is how we apply it that truly makes the difference.

Back to the slave pit. There may be floggings later to break the monotomy.