I’ve been sharing ways authors effectively create suspense—ways to keep you turning the pages of their stories. Today I bring you creepy and scary.
I’m usually not at all a fan of scary stories. I mean it. I refuse to watch scary movies, not just near bedtime, but anytime. My imagination takes scary images and […]
I love books that provide me a window into another world. Maybe you read The Lightning Queen, by Laura Resau after I recommended it recently—it brought Rom and Mixtec Indian cultures vividly to life.
Today’s book recommendation: Dolls of Hope, by Shirley Parenteau, is another such window into another world. It’s […]
I have an awesome read for you!
One thing I can say without doubt: writing, then reading other people’s writing, leads one to REALLY appreciate good writing. Whether one can take the excellence one sees and apply it to one’s own writing, is another question!
I’m late to the party on this book—this series, I […]
Today I bring you My Diary from the Edge of the World, by Jodi Lynn Anderson. It’s a story about trying to protect those you love at all costs. It’s a perilous journey mapping where love can take you, for better and for worse, when faced with the threat of loss.
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Here’s yet another way authors can grab and hold a reader’s attention throughout a book: passion and peril. By “passion,” in this case I mean gripping excitement and intensity. Peril, of course, is the intense danger just about to happen that keeps you from turning out the light while reading at bedtime!
Today’s book recommendation […]
Fanciful and Fantastic!
Coming February 26, 2016
Yet another set of descriptors for ways authors engage and hold readers’ attention: fanciful and fantastic.
I’d like to think those words can be applied to my books, at least now and again. You will likely find the Joy Jumbles in Becoming Piper […]
“Summer and Bird” : exquisite cover and book!
The book I’m featuring today is Summer and Bird, by Katherine Catmull, published in 2012. I picked it up because of its cover.
What? Yes! Who made that saying up, anyway? “Don’t judge a book by its […]
In saying weirdos unite, I’m pointing out that when we become friends with another outsider, those parts of ourselves that are ostracized, can become a source of bonding.
One of the strong themes in my books is friendship and its transformational power. Friendship adds to an individual’s life in at least two […]
I’ve been exploring the different ways authors create suspense; ways they grab a reader’s attention and hold it throughout the telling of their tale. So far I’ve brought you examples of action and adventure, mystique and intrigue—today I’ve got a beautiful example of connection and conflict.
In this case, connection and conflict […]
Paperback now available on Amazon
I’ve been exploring and sharing different ways authors engage their readers. Today let’s bring in mystique and intrigue.
Fantasy is a genre perfectly situated for mystique and intrigue. Magical beings, other worlds, magical powers—they all have that unique draw that I’m calling “intrigue.”
The Curse of the […]
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