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Jennie Nash’s “The Threadbare Heart”: A Review

(Pssst! Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to enter Jennie Nash’s Mother’s Day contest for your chance to win some fantastic prizes!) Jennie Nash‘s latest novel, The Threadbare Heart (May 2010, Berkley Trade), explores themes of love, loss and hope through three generations of marriages. Lily is a fifty-something college professor, wife to Tom, mother

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Story Structure Demystified by Larry Brooks: A Review

What if you could take the big picture of novel writing and condense it into one handy resource? That’s how I feel about bestselling author Larry Brooks’ new ebook, Story Structure Demystified, now available from his website, Storyfix. His tagline: What to write, where to put it, why it works there, and why none of

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