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Your novel needs a setting. The setting must be strong and suitable for your story. However, it must not overwhelm the story. Sprinkle it in as you go. Do not write travelogues.
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Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce 12-year-old Liam is tall for his age, and is often mistaken for an adult. He has a fascination with thrill rides and theme parks, so Liam jumps at the chance to try out a new one involving a rocket. But the problem is that Liam enters the Greatest Dad Ever
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Novel writing is a step by step procedure that some find very interesting. However, if it is your first time it can proof a bit challenging.
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Being an author means a lot of work and luck. Writing that first story begins with a single word. Are you ready to take on the challenge?
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The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Derting’s debut novel is a gripping page turner full of romance, mystery, and suspense. Violet’s ability to sense the dead has plagued her since she was little. She had to constantly cope with being drawn to the echoes left behind by the dead. The torment that ensued after her
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Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski Thirty-seven year old reporter Mickey Wade recently lost his position at the Philadelphia City News. Broke and heeding his mom’s advice, he moves into the apartment of his ailing grandfather to reduce his costs and to help care for his elderly relative. The Frankford neighborhood is nasty; worse than when he
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The Compound by S.A. Bodeen Stuck in a modern fallout shelter for six years, Eli Yanakakis grieves for his twin brother and grandmother who were left outside the shelter during a nuclear attack. Eli has escaped death, but has become introverted, self-focused and standoffish as he waits for the 15-year time period to expire and
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The Dead-Tossed Waves (Forest of Hands and Teeth, Book 2) by Carrie Ryan Carrie Ryan grabs you by the teeth with THE DEAD TOSSED WAVES and never lets you go. Before jumping into this book, I felt almost hesitant, wondering if I was ready to embark on another harrowing journey and worried about how emotionally
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne The book is based around a series of lies. A nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin in 1943 would be close to the age for entering the Hitler Youth (by this stage compulsory) and would have been educated at school about the ‘evils’ of Judaism. The
The Commission by Michael Norman