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Making Your Book Fly by Angela Knight

Film can do incredible things. It can make you believe you’re seeing dragons fly, or a Jedi Knight battling Darth Vader. But as impressive as that is, novelists can do something even the best filmmakers can’t. They can make you feel the beat of the dragon’s wings, or the heat of the light saber humming …

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Opinions. Everybody’s Got One – the Pro Rookie By Liz Crowe

By way of not taking my own advice, I’ve been following a few folks on Twitter who, let’s just say, are super into offering advice for authors. Their advice is many times useful. Other times it seems to be they are channeling their pet peeves vis a’ vis “books” and “characters” and turning that into …

Craft Research SavvyBlog

YouTube: The Romance Writer’s Secret Weapon by Angela Knight

I’d like to share a sampling of my favorite YouTube links I’ve found useful for everything from writing fight scenes to creating e-book covers. YouTube may just be the best weapon the Internet has ever given romance novelists. Even books aren’t as useful for researching physical skills as videos – and I adore books. The …

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When Your Thinking Cap looks a lot like Santa’s Hat by Beth Daniels, aka Beth Henderson, J.B. Dane, Nied Darnell

Here we are in December already. I don’t know about you, but it always seems to creep up on me and jump out waving a list of things to be accomplished within only a few weeks. So why, you might be wondering, do I want you to join me for a week of talking about …