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4 Great Tactics for Ratcheting Up the Suspense in Your Novel – Guest Post by Savannah Cordova
I'd like to welcome a special guest to my blog this week. Savannah Cordova is sharing her thoughts on increasing suspense in our novels. Give her a warm welcome! Thanks for being here, Savannah!...
Deliverance – Coffee with Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene pushes her tunic sleeves up, revealing scars crisscrossed like a busy highway intersection. I can't help but stare. She follows my gaze. “They’re ugly, huh?” Instead of pulling her sleeves down, she shoves them higher and rests her arms on the table in...
ACFW August New Releases
Time for more awesome summer reads. Check out this list of amazing authors! More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Amish Romance: The Cowboy’s Amish Haven by Pamela Desmond Wright -- Her home and her heart are on the...
Explosive Endings…A Sneak Peek at Lethal Cover-Up
Last week I talked about how writers struggle with writing that very first line. Today, I'm sharing how I continue on with my story and write the ending. No matter what genre we write, authors work hard at that explosive ending. Again, we write it over and over to get...
Beginnings…a Sneak Peek at Lethal Cover-Up
Every writer knows they will struggle with that dreaded first line and probably re-write it over ten times. Why? Because they know a reader will either be hooked and pick up their book or put it down. We don't want our readers to set our book back on the shelf. We...
Plotting Helps
Exploring the Art of Plotting by DiAnn Mills “Writing – turning straw into gold.” – DiAnn Mills Does plotting make you pivot and run in the opposite direction? Some writers plot, others write by the seat of their pants (pantsers). Plotting can be hard, but...
ACFW July New Releases
Another month of great new releases! So honored Lethal Cover-Up is included among these awesome books! More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website General Contemporary: Rocky Mountain Restoration by Lisa J. Flickinger --...
A Scarred Woman – Coffee with Rahab
“Who cares about a prostitute?” A newspaper article of a slain young woman clutches my heart like a vise, squeezing until my breath escapes. I rub my chest hoping it would relieve the ache from the callous remarks. Has our world really gotten this heartless? I shake...