Multiple genre fiction, Adult, YA & MG. Full Member: SCBWI, Active Member: HWA. Free 2X monthly e-newsletter for writers: https://xitter.cf/t.co/2rWv4SylRk
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Joined December 2020
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If you’re based in the U.S. & have published fiction in the last 5 years, you’re invited to share your drafting experience in a 1-time, confidential online interview (≈60 min). Please click here for details: writingrhythm.substack.com/p… (Background pic by geralt from Pixabay) #Substack, #WritingTips, #WritingCommunity
THE WRITE IDEA: Start with a bang! Grab your reader’s attention! Show the problem right away then keep upping the tension. #AmWriting, #Writingtips, #Writers, #WritersBlock, #WritingCommunity, #5amWritersClub (Photo by Daniel Jensen on Unsplash)
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Welcome to my world! 💋✨
17 steamy short stories packed with intense passion and desire, all in one ultimate collection.
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SETTING DOWN TO THINK: If characters interact with setting—HEAR the boom of thunder, FEEL the rain on their face, SMELL the wet pavement, SEE the puddles—your reader can also know this place. #AmWriting, #WritingCommunity, #SCBWI (Photo by Michael D on Unsplash)
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This was not the way Richard had wanted to marry. Not a forced marriage with a blood oath invoked. Now he was bound to a woman with several reasons to hate him. Can they find an arrangement that suits them both?
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‘A Slow Decay of Flowers’🌷💀
New Amazon review:
“Excellent book, couldn’t put it down!
Loved the 80s/90s metal and grunge music references interweaved throughout.
Short, and packs a punch! 👊”
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Available in paperback:
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DEFINITION DAY: “Foreshadowing” keeps reader’s interest growing by teasing the direction your plot is going. #AmWriting, #Writingtips, #Writers, #WritersBlock, #WritingCommunity, #5amWritersClub (Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash)
THEME, PLOT & WHATNOT: About conflict: don’t have a third party or outside force solve it. Your protagonist alone must act to resolve it. #AmWriting, #Writingtips, #Writers, #WritersBlock, #WritingCommunity, #5amWritersClub (Photo by Javier García on Unsplash)
HAVE SOME CHARACTER: Small details are crucial, if a character’s essence you need to share. Ask—where (and how) does she live? What does she eat, believe in, and wear? #AmWriting, #WritersBlock, #WritingCommunity, #5amWritersClub (Photo by Mahdi Bafande on Unsplash)
MOTIVATION STATION: Being published is gravy…icing on the cake…an imagined standing ovation. The important thing is the journey—the process of creation. #AmWriting, #Writingtips, #WritersBlock, #WritingCommunity, #5amWritersClub (Photo by The Creative Exchange on Unsplash)
NATIONAL DAY ON WRITING
Today, writing’s the topic, so shout about it and share about it.
Clue others in on your love of creating words
And explain why we should all care about it
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THE KEEP is now out in paperback. 📖
A farmer's son, a war, a prison carved into a mountain, and the Wizards' Keep.
Prismatic Book 1 · paperback $12.99 · still on Kindle and in Kindle Unlimited
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#FantasyBooks #IndieAuthor
THE WRITE IDEA: In dialogue, starting chapters, or to make observations are all great spots to blend poetry into novels’ creations. #AmWriting, #Writingtips, #Writers, #WritersBlock, #WritingCommunity, #5amWritersClub (Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash)
SETTING DOWN TO THINK: Over-research your setting to find your location’s true heart. Don’t put it all in the tale; but know this place well—before you even start. #AmWriting, #Writingtips, #Writers, #WritingCommunity, #5amWritersClub (Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash)
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COMPLETE SERIES!
800 years ago the Fae were driven out of Britannia.
Now they want it back.
Magic v technology. Old Gods against new.
Only the Fates will decide.
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WALLY LAMB’S BIRTHDAY: Rejections getting you down? Here’s Lamb’s advice, if you need it: "If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it." #AmWriting, #Writingtips, #Writers, #WritersBlock, #WritingCommunity, #5amWritersClub
THEME, PLOT & WHATNOT: Want to enrich your tale? Don’t only put an external conflict in place. Make your protag question herself with an internal conflict to face. #AmWriting, #Writingtips, #Writers, #WritingCommunity, #5amWritersClub (Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash)
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Her father vanished in Siberia. Her search uncovers a past buried for decades. ❄️
How far would you go to bring him home?
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SNOW BLIND by J. R. Kavanagh — available now in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.
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He stopped believing.
But he swore an oath.
Jake Cross is a Paladin commander.
What happens when duty outlives belief?
Begin Quest for the Star with Chapter One: The Blood Prince and the Sword of Fire.
Kindle ebook — $0.99.
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A family of three walks into a dusty toy shop.
The girl wants a porcelain doll.
The father would sell his last heirloom for it.
The mother looks at the shopkeeper a second too long.
On the third shelf, a doll in a striped jumper cannot blink.
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