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Why Read a Short Story or a Collection? 27 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
The Blessing or Curse Collection, a sequel to my thriller, Forever Young: Blessing or Curse, is now available. This collection contains five short stories, about five very different types of people wh...
Layer Four: Internal Conflict Scenes 26 Aug 2013 | 12:52 pm
Internal Conflict scenes introduce and explore the personal dilemma your protagonist struggles with. The verbal camera is focused with a tight spotlight beaming on the protagonist in the background. U...
A Question of Villainy 23 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Photo by David Bleasdale, Flickr The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis, purports to be a collection of letters written by a senior devil (Screwtape) to his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter. In one o...
The First Fifty Pages 22 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Last year, I had the pleasure of attending the MWA University held in Denver. I recapped the sessions on my own blog, and today I'm sharing how I've put one of the sessions to use. Reed Farrel Colem...
5 Focal Points for Writers Reading Books 21 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
I always get a good laugh when, invariably, my writers come back to me and say, “How on earth can you read for pleasure? You’ve ruined reading for me! Now all I see are major flaws.” Yes, that does...
Going the Long Way Around 20 Aug 2013 | 11:18 am
Photo courtesy of stock.xchng Hello, dearies! After much squinting and persuasion, your Style Maven is now sporting a new pair of glasses. The frames are lovely; the price tag was anything but. That ...
Seriously, Serialize 19 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
Photo credit: Google Images Publishing is changing, books are changing, reading itself is changing – and it’s all changing so fast that authors can feel that they can’t keep up. What’s a writer to do...
Nancy Martin's Rules of Writing and Promotion: Part 3 17 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
In this final of three installments, novelist Nancy Martin takes time from the release of her latest mystery, Little Black Book of Murder, to talk with Kathryn Craft about her recent Facebook promotio...
Nancy Martin's Rules of Writing and Promotion: Part 2 16 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
In this second of three installments, novelist Nancy Martin takes time from the release of her latest mystery, Little Black Book of Murder, to talk with Kathryn Craft about her recent Facebook promoti...
Nancy Martin's Rules of Writing and Promotion: Part 1 15 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
In this first of three installments, novelist Nancy Martin takes time from the release of her latest mystery, Little Black Book of Murder, to talk with Kathryn Craft about her recent Facebook promotio...
