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Mixing Romance & Suspense – A Perfect Combination By Becky Martinez (Rebecca Grace)

Old movies have always been a favorite of mine. From the time I was ten years old and watching the late show on one of the few television channels we received in rural Colorado. Every Saturday night the late movie started at 10:30 and usually ended around 12. My mother went to bed at ten …

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How to Avoid Saggy Starts by Paris Wynters

You’ve probably all heard the writing term “saggy middle,” which refers to the middle part of a story that is particularly susceptible to stalling and the momentum fizzling, both for the writer while writing it and the reader while reading it. Even if you haven’t heard the term, I’m sure you’ve all read books like …

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Classes Starting the Week of July 29 & August 5

Starting the Week of July 29 Old Friends—Make Your Characters Memorable with Kathy Otten Behind the Scenes: The Research Before the Book with Jacqui Jacoby DIY Book Tours with Ines Johnson Starting the Week of August 5 Submissions that Sell! with Laura Drake Symbols. Images. Codes. with Pamela Jaye Smith Action Sequences: Writing Heart-Pounding Fight Scenes, Chases, …

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Self-Editing for the Know-It-All Author: The Dreaded Passive Voice by Franca Pelaccia

As an ESL teacher, who teaches grammar every day, and an author of several books, I believed I knew my grammar inside out. When I wrote the romantic comedy, The Hockey Player & the Angel, I had several of my English teacher associates read it for grammar. It came back with an A+. But when …

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Mixing Romance & Suspense – A Perfect Combination By Becky Martinez (Rebecca Grace)

How to Avoid Saggy Starts by Paris Wynters

Classes Starting the Week of July 29 & August 5

Self-Editing for the Know-It-All Author: The Dreaded Passive Voice by Franca Pelaccia