With Halloween upon us, what better time to curl up and read a good ghost story—or write one! Today, AuthorHouse presents ten tips for ratcheting up the tension in your own self-published horror tale. Make your readers care about your characters (before you kill them off.) If you want your readers to be concerned about the fate of your characters (which helps create tension), they have to care about them! Don’t create cardboard characters whose names might as well be “victim #1,” “victim #2,” etc. Try to pick situations that could happen to your reader. What’s one reason that Psycho’s s
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