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Nyphron Rising: The Riyria Revelations (Volume 3) by Michael J. Sullivan With the third book in the Riyria Revelations series, Nyphron Rising, Michael J. Sullivan has done it again. He has managed to write a story with a momentum that keeps the pages turning and the heart racing, keeping you itching to know what happens
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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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The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Violet has the strange ability to sense an “echo” from people (and animals) that have been killed. The echo is unique for each killing although it matches the echo given off by the killer. Usually, this “talent” is a nuisance – Violet can’t even go near her cat because
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There’s an essential step to writing a really good novel that many new writers overlook. Once you understand this idea, your writing will be much more dynamic and powerful and you will be able to hook your readers into your story so they won’t want to put down your book until the last page. Here’s how to write a good novel that your readers will love: make sure you introduce a major crisis at the beginning of your story.
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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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Memory by Donald E. Westlake Memory is a noir novel, centered very much on its now-loner protagonist. Paul thinks he has a mystery to investigate — to figure out who he is — and he goes through the detective-motions. But the pieces, even as they add up, don’t help him. What he really has to
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So you think you have a really cool idea for your first novel but don’t know where to begin with the writing? Firstly, here’s a question. Is your novel going to be a mainstream novel or a category novel? A category novel fits into in a category – romance, science fiction, historical, crime saga, suspense, etc. A mainstream novel has a unique style and theme. They are novels that cannot be put into any category. They are difficult to write, and even more difficult to sell. They are the type of novel we call literary – the type that wins the Booker prize.
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If you are interested in becoming an author and are interested in learning how to write a good novel, begin by reading good novels in the genre that you are interested in writing about. Reading novels from great authors within the same genre that you are interested in will give you ideas on how to structure the plot of your novel, how to develop a theme, setting scenes, writing dialogues and how to write good characters.
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The Extra by Michael Shea Reality television is one of the reasons that I stopped paying for a TV licence; it got to a point where that there was so much of it on television that there just wasn’t room for any of the stuff that I actually wanted to watch. There’s something compelling about
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Writing a fiction novel can seem like an overwhelming prospect when you sit down in front of that blank page for the first time. There are so many pieces to the puzzle that you have to figure out: writing believable and compelling characters, developing the plot, managing multiple points of view, writing dialog, and on and on.
Dashing Through the Snow by Mary & Carol Higgins Clark