Congratulations to Myra Dunlap who won an autographed copy of AIM from last week's blog. ***** Some books defy genres. Longbow Girl is one of them. It is well-researched historical fiction and also a meticulously crafted, time travel novel. No easy feat, but one that Linda Davies pulls off with aplomb. If you study this… Continue reading Longbow Girl: A Review and Audio CD Giveaway
To be honest, at first I didn't think about historical fantasy being a genre until I read Wonder at the Edge of the World by Nicole Helget and was contemplating how I wanted to review it. But then I realized I've read many books with both historical and magical elements--although typically they take place prior to the 20th century. Set… Continue reading Wonder at the Edge of the World- and a Giveaway!
Congratulations to Lindsay Fouts, my new blog follower, who won James Scott Bell's book, Plot and Structure. ********* As I begin the fourth major draft of Half-Truths, I need to attack some of my writing weaknesses. According to my writing coach Rebecca Petruck, I have to work on my "internal-life writing muscles." To do this, she… Continue reading Learning Character Internalization