Stephanie Kane & A Perfect Eye After a fourteen-year break since her last book, Stephanie Kane returns with a new novel coming out next month. A Perfect Eye is a mystery-thriller set in and around the Denver Art Museum featuring painting conservator Lily Sparks. On the podcast, Stephanie Kane talks about the reasons she took…
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Keep the Pages Turning with Mini Cliffhangers
What do you think of when you hear the word cliffhanger? Bombs dropping? Car chases? A character literally dangling from a cliff while hungry sharks circle the water below? Not all cliffhangers are so dramatic. They can be big or small, external or internal, over-the-top or subtle. They can apply to thrillers, literary fiction, and…
How to Blog Tour Your Book Launch
Going into my second book launch, I find myself going through some of the same steps as I did before my first. One thing I did really big last year was a blog tour. Seems most authors have a blog and are happy to share their platform. They get to take a break from coming…
Rocky Mountain Writer #180
Mark Pleiss & April Warnings The first novel from Mark Pleiss is called April Warnings and it’s a series of interconnected stories set in and around Baxter County in Nebraska as a twister bears down. The narratives are connected by the Midwestern ritual of going into an underground tornado shelter, the disappearance of a young…
Deep POV Lesson 11 – MRUs
MRUs? Huh? An MRU is a Motivation Reaction Unit. It’s a term coined by the inestimable Dwight Swain, and it’s a magic key to keep your reader immersed deep in the story. It may not be DEEP POV, but it’s closely related. So, I’ll just give you a taste and send you off to Google…