Guest Bloggers
Ask An Author (episode 1)
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Ask An Author. On the second Monday of each month, I and members of my super-duper author expert panel are going to be answering your questions as readers and writers. This week’s question is: What one thing do you wish you’d known before becoming...
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CHRISTIAN FICTION SCAVENGER HUNT: STOP #2 (PURPLE TEAM)
Join the Christian fiction scavenger hunt, April 16-19, 2015. This is Purple Stop #2, with a special guest post from Jody Hedlund.
Guest Post: Writing the Romantic Suspense Novel, by Lisa Carter
1. The essence of any story is conflict and the tension produced by unmet desires. Conflict and tension are ratcheted higher in romantic suspense with life and death stakes. 2. Questions for the plotting process—What do my main characters want? What goes wrong? What’s at stake? What can I do...
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Guest Post: The Pathway NOT to Take to Publication, by Harry Kraus
The Pathway NOT to take to Publication (uh, yeah, happens to be the one I took): 1) For the most part, write blissfully ignorant of “the rules.” I know, I know, there are no concrete rules for fiction writing, but there are ways that others have done things, ways that...
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