Why Authors Go Wrong, and Other Explanations

by Grant M. Overton

WHY AUTHORS GO WRONG
AND
OTHER EXPLANATIONS

WHY AUTHORS
GO WRONG
AND OTHER EXPLANATIONS

BY
GRANT M. OVERTON
AUTHOR OF “THE WOMEN WHO MAKE OUR NOVELS”

NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY
1919

Copyright, 1919,
BY
MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Why Authors Go Wrong	[ 1]
II.	A Barbaric Yawp	[ 25]
III.	In the Critical Court	[ 39]
IV.	Book “Reviewing”	[ 51]
V.	Literary Editors, by One of Them	[ 103]
VI.	What Every Publisher Knows	[ 119]
VII.	The Secret of the Best Seller	[ 145]
VIII.	Writing a Novel	[ 173]

WHY AUTHORS GO WRONG
AND
OTHER EXPLANATIONS