Tagged: suspense

Meet Alex Thornton: 10 Questions Answered Mar. 10, 2015 / 2 Comments

  [caption id="attachment_1095" align="alignleft" width="303"] www.istock.com[/caption] In the next four posts pertaining to on-the-edge suspense, I’m letting four of my characters from Panama Deception speak.  Each one has a…

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FCTB: The Book Interior Feb. 17, 2015 / 0 Comments

By now, you’ve gathered all of the text that you’ll need for the outside of your book.  But what about the inside or what’s called…

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Panama Deception: The Novel That Almost Wasn’t Jan. 06, 2015 / 0 Comments

[caption id="attachment_362" align="alignleft" width="289"] Courtesy of Lorenzo and www.flickr.com.[/caption] Writing can be hard.  Really hard.  Sometimes, you want to give up because your plot isn’t…

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Numbers in Writing: Scene Chords Dec. 09, 2014 / 0 Comments

This is the last post of my series on numbers in writing.  I want to talk about scene chords.  In his book, Plot and Structure, James Scott Bell discusses…

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The Author Speaks: 5 Questions about Hunter Hunted Answered Nov. 04, 2014 / 0 Comments

I know that when a new book comes out, especially from a new author, readers have lots of questions about it. In today’s post, I’ve…

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