Lights Over Emerald Creek #Excerpt by @ShelleyDavidow #AmReading #SciFi #YA

The Phonecall ‘Hi this is Lucy.’ ‘Lucy, it’s Jonathan. So glad you’re there.’ The roundness and beauty of rocky hills and misty lochs sounded in his voice. It was a young voice, but had an edge of manhood about it. He wasn’t a boy. Warmth seeped from the top of her head, into her heart. ‘That’s nice of you to call,’ she said, desperately casual. ‘What time is it there?’ ‘It’s almost seven,’ he said. ‘But I’ve been up for hours.’ She liked...

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Pendelton Wallace on Studying Other Authors #WriteTip #SelfPub #AmWriting

Practical Advice for Beginning Fiction (or other genre) Writers Read, read, read. You need to know your genre. If you’re writing about zombies and vampires, what kind of mythology has already been created? Look for common threads in other works in your genre. Get to know what the reader expects, then excite and thrill them. Exceed their expectations. Study other authors; find out what makes their stories successful. If you’re writing Romance...

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The Dangerous Writing Mind of Roland Hughes #Dystopian #AmReading #AmWriting

I must warn you, my mind is a dangerous place.  My friends have been hearing that since we were teenagers but it wasn’t until I started writing novels that they began to realize it was just a joke. As a writer/author one question gets asked countless times.  I has many different wordings, but it is the same question.  “What lead you to write this story?”  “What was going through your mind as you wrote this story?” ...

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@KentBurden on What You’re Going to Write & How to Decide #NonFiction #Wellness #AmWriting

I often get the question “how do you decide what you’re going to write about?” it’s a pretty valid question, unlike someone who writes fiction I don’t have to come up with a story or a plot I just have to come up with a subject, but what subject? As a health and wellness expert my choices are endless, exercise, stress reduction, weight loss, nutrition and all the sub categories that go along with healthy living. But how do you decide what...

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About LOCK READY by @JimRada #Historical #Fiction #AmReading

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Lock Ready I was asked to give you a little insight on me by telling you 10 things that you might not realize about my newest historical novel, Lock Ready. While Lock Ready is the last book in the Canawlers trilogy, I also wrote a short novella using the same characters. The novella was written as a promotional item for Canalfest in 2003. The story is called The Race and is set...

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THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN #Excerpt by @M_Holdsworth #WomensFic #HistFic

THE MONROES SET SAIL FOR FRANCE from THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN by Marilyn Holdsworth A stiff breeze was blowing across the Chesapeake Bay the next morning when the Cincinnatus pulled away from Cheapside Wharf, leaving Baltimore Harbor to make her way toward the open seas. Although it was early, all the ship’s passengers gathered on deck for the sailing. I stood at the railing, holding Eliza’s hand. The wind blew through...

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