How-To Write Lesson 4: Catalyst and Debate

Sorry about the delay in posting. Sometimes life happens and we just have to go with the flow. Speaking of flow... This week's section of Save the Cat's structure for storytelling covers the Catalyst and debate. They are two separate points of story which go hand-in-hand. Before we get into it, here are a few …

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How-To Be An Informed Voter

Vote responsibly by getting informed. Our nation is facing important issues and finding out exactly what they are, without the bias is our most basic responsibility as Americans

Mama Bear: Part 2

Inside she was grizzled with the knowledge of what she'd done. The feel of the short knife left a burning impression in her hand. She felt bad in the sense that she had taken a life, though no part of her felt that Chester's life could be considered human.

How To Choose Between Traditional and Self-Publishing

What kind of writer am I? The point of a writer asking themselves that question is really to help initiate the goal process. As we all know, goal-setting is important in writing. Nothing ever gets written if I don't force myself to make the time to sit down and write. When it came to writing …

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Week 8: Summer Audiobook Giveaway

Happy Thursday! Below are the week 8 audiobook selections. This week's audiobooks look very interesting to me, specifically the selection by W.E.B. DuBios, as I took a Sociology class last fall and found him fascinating. Free from SYNC Summer Reading program:   By Christina Diaz Gonzalez Read by Kyla Garcia The Red Umbrella is a …

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What’s Free This Week!

  Today marks the beginning of week 5 in Sync Audiobooks FREE summer reading program!  Below, I've listed this weeks selections, available through 6/9! by David Ring, John Driver | Read by Paul Michael Published by christianaudio In 1953, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, a baby boy was born—dead. The attending physician set his little body aside …

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What I’m Working On

Some time last summer, I decided that I should finish TWO books by the end of 2015. Well, I didn't finish them but I haven't stopped trying. I did release my very first SCI-FI novel, INERTIA! (It's got really great reviews, you should give it a read!) But I'm still working on the next two books …

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(Audio) Book Review: RUINS, Book 3 of the Partials Sequence, By Dan Wells

RUINS by Dan Wells is the third and final book in The Partial Sequence.  I wrote reviews on the first two books here and here (ICYI) and loved them both. So it's only right that I write this final review on the final book ... Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war …

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Update: Book Review Requests

This was originally posted here I have decided to make BOOK REVIEWS a regular thing here on my blog!!!  Rating system is as follows: 5 STARS: I LOVE THIS BOOK! I WILL READ IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN! YOU HAVE TO READ IT TOO SO WE CAN FAN-GIRL TOGETHER! 4 STARS: I REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK AND …

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Book Review: A Pound Of Flesh By Sophie Jackson

Orange Is the New Black meets Jennifer Probst’s New York Times bestselling Marriage to a Billionaire trilogy, featuring a strong-minded prison tutor who discovers that her sexy bad-boy student is far more than he appears to be. Haunted by nightmares of her father’s street murder fifteen years ago, Kat Lane decides to face her fears …

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