Congrats to @CassReviews winner of yesterday’s EBOOK. Good luck to today’s tweeters & commentors! On the tour today…THE TAO OF WEBFOOT and an excerpt from Rhoe’s POV. Enter to win & comment there for a free EBOOK & SWAG! Winner announced here tomorrow 🙂 Behind The Scenes of TRANSFER STUDENT: Why two POVs? Los Angeles …
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Congrats to @Jwitt33 winner of today’s TRANSFER STUDENT EBOOK! Good luck to today’s tweeters 🙂 To read a review and get the scoop on today’s EBOOK/SWAG Giveaways visit the next stop on the tour, the wonderful Epilogue Review! Over the next few days I’m blogging about the inspirations/challenges of TRANSFER STUDENT. I wrote the first draft in 2006 …
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Everything. Right now it’s teaching me about the WWI and WWII in Europe and Asia. I’m writing an historical novel that takes place over a few generations, based on the true life of members of my family. And while I’ve got loads of primary information from interviews and letters, I need to know specifics. Specifics …
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I am knee deep in edits of my upcoming novel TRANSFER STUDENT, a sci-fi romance. It’s a curious thing to be your own editorial calendar maker. You are essentially having conversations like these, with yourself: “Those edits needed to be in last week.” “I know, it’s just going a lot slower than I expectied.” “You …
Jake & Samantha win copies of 13 on Halloween & Winnemucca! Congratulations to :Â 8-12 YEAR OLD WRITERS First place:Â The Unseen Blight by Jake Flinthart 13-17 YEAR OLD WRITERS First place:Â Monster by Samantha Whitehouse ADULT WRITERS Two great entries tied for first place in our adult category.
What’s plot? It’s what makes readers turn pages. Keeps them wanting more. And what’s a better way to learn about plot than the movies? I guess it’s because my friend is a screenwriter and that’s why I use the screenplay method to plot my novels. Also because the Screenwriters Expo happens every year, for only …
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I had the great good fortune to receive an email from my local San Francisco South SCBWI chapter to let me know that Martha Alderson, author of among many other books her latest The Plot Whisperer : Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master, would be speaking free for members of SCBWI in Palo …
