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With How to Craft Killer Dialogue, you’ll learn proper punctuation, how to build tension, differentiate between characters, and represent accents/dialects effectively. Whether you’re writing a novel, memoir, or something in between, this guide is the best resource for perfecting conversations.

Whether you’re writing a cozy or a psychological thriller, worldbuilding is essential. After all, if your audience can’t visualize your protagonist’s plight, they’ll lose sight of your plot. Unfortunately, many writers consider clever settings the sole province of fantasy authors—and while it is...

The words “chase scene” mean different things to different people. Some immediately think about car chases like The French Connection (1971) while others favor the outrageous boat chases that seem to pop up in every James Bond movie from Quantum of Solace (2008) to From Russia With Love (1963)...

We love unreliable narrators like Tyler Durden from Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club or Amy Dunne from Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, but we rarely talk about how such narrators are written and what makes those characters so memorable. Luckily, we can garner a lot about the power of this technique...

Branding builds name recognition and helps readers understand the value behind what you offer so that they can make an informed buying decision. But if you only have a few seconds to make a lasting impression, how do you encapsulate your brand? Answer: The Author Tagline. A tagline is a...

*** Registration is now full. *** Crafting a mystery series can be fraught with peril, but there are three questions that lie at the heart of the terror: Who are the suspects? What makes them suspects? Who is the sleuth? This session will help you use those three questions to kick start a...