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People always ask me questions about writing. How do you get started? How do you write a book? Here's a workbook from a workshop I did a few years ago. Hope this helps. The Novel Within Workbook What Do You Want To Write?           Every novel starts with one sentence. What do you want your sentence to say? How do you want to hook the reader into moving on to the next page? Exercise 1. Open your favorite book and read the first sentence. Write five things about it that captured your attention. Exercise 2. Write a sentence with an interesting hook. Exercise 3. Build a paragraph around the sentence from exercise two. Planning and Plotting           There are many ways to start writing your novel. You can plan it with an outline, defining your plot, developing your characters and describing your setting. Or you can “wing” it. It depends on wh...

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They say you should never judge a book by it's cover. As an author who's had a couple of jacked up covers, that old saying is so true. Take the novel Child Support by Amour for instance. If you think this is a typical story, be prepared to have your socks knocked right off. Angel Jacobs has a stunning face and a petite, drop-dead body. She has two jobs and an apartment in a pricey Chicago neighborhood. She has a sister with Down’s syndrome, a mother with cancer and a daughter she hasn’t seen in years. She has bipolar disorder, hallucinations and short-term memory loss. She has hot nights with one handsome man after another, but she doesn’t have a lot of second dates—because the men she sleeps with always wind up dead. Does it have anything to do with the child her baby daddy won’t let her see? Angel is distressed by the rash of murders in her neighborhood, yet she doesn’t quite connect them to her increasingly bloody home…but eventually, the police do. Branded a ser...