Creating a Living Setting
December 18, 2022 by marianne h donley in category Ages 2 Perfection Online Class, Apples & Oranges by Marianne H. Donley, Online Classes
Creating a Living Setting
Presented by: Jeannie Moon
Date: January 21, 2023, Saturday, 9AM PT
Registration Closes: January 22, 2023
Pricing: A2P Member fee: $5
Non-A2P Member fee: $10
About the Workshop:
Settings are more than time or place to plop down your book’s characters. A setting can be a living, breathing entity, whether it’s a small town, big city or a brand new world. Settings limit or expand possibilities for your characters, are a catalyst for change, act as a pain trigger or provide comfort. The possibilities are endless.
About the Presenter:
Bestselling, award-winning author Jeannie Moon will take you through the intricacies of creating a setting that will transport your readers to a world of your creation and make them want to return again and again. This is a deep dive into the craft of using time and place to enhance the story’s depth and give readers a true sense of what your characters are experiencing.
Scene-by-Scene Writing
December 17, 2022 by marianne h donley in category Ages 2 Perfection Online Class, Apples & Oranges by Marianne H. Donley, Online Classes
Scene-by-Scene Writing
Presented by: Sally J. Walker
Date: January 2 – 31, 2023
Registration Closes: January 16, 2023
Pricing: A2P Member fee: $15
Non-A2P Member fee: $30
About the Workshop:
Learn the building blocks of fictional storytelling through Sessions filled with definitions, explanations and examples leading up to writing exercises with instructor analysis. In this eight-session workshop, you will see how to plan story and prevent pitfalls, one page at a time. You will discover the magic of successfully juggling main plot and subplot, Point of View, and the crisp pacing demanded in today’s fiction market. You will learn the “how to” of analyzing and achieving “Scene-and-Sequel,” the fundamental logic of story events.
Course Outline
Session One: Principles of Storytelling
Session Two: Scene as a Unit of Time
Session Three: Writing Scene
Session Four: Analysis of the Parts of Scene
Session Five: Sequel as Logical Links Carrying Forward
Session Six: Writing Sequel
Session Seven: Analysis of the Parts of Sequel
Session Eight: Plotting through Scene-and-Sequel
About the Presenter:
Sally Walker’s published credits include literary, romance and western novels, a nonfiction essay collection, several creative writing textbooks, stage plays, poetry, and many magazine articles on the craft of writing, including staff contributions to two international film magazines for 10 years. Sally has written 33 screenplays, sold 1, and has Hollywood representation.
In addition to long time active memberships in such national writing organizations as RWA, WWA, and SCBWI, she was president of a state-wide writers organization 2007-2011 and is active in the Nebraska Film Association. While keeping to a strenuous writing schedule, she worked as Editorial Director for a small publishing company for 18 years. Besides being an adjunct professor of screenwriting at a local community college, Sally has taught writing seminars, both on-site and on-line, for over 30 years and is the facilitator for the weekly meetings of the Nebraska Writers Workshop in Ralston, NE.
Drama King an All-new Snowed-in Romantic Comedy by Penny Reid
December 16, 2022 by marianne h donley in category Apples & Oranges by Marianne H. Donley, Spotlight tagged as Drama King, holiday romance, new release, Penny Reid, romance novels, romantic comedy
★★Now Live★★
Drama King, an all-new snowed-in holiday romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Penny Reid, is LIVE on all platforms!
★★Blurb★★
Stuck with her off-limits, taciturn, hunky movie star client during a sudden snowstorm on Christmas Eve, an extremely capable and highly professional bodyguard must keep him alive and warm without letting the tension building between them get too hot.
Bathsheba (Beth) Ryan can’t thank her best friend enough for helping her land the job of her dreams. After being relegated to second-string security for politicians in DC, being hired as an undercover personal security specialist by a giant Hollywood studio is exactly the kind of action she’s always wanted.
Until she meets her first assignment.
Cyrus Malcom can’t thank his agent enough for arranging a blind date with seemingly the woman of his dreams. After spending the past several years playing all the parts and climbing all the ladders, the lonely mega movie star finds himself actually enjoying a night on the town for the first time in ages when he meets the gorgeous, funny, and genuine Ryaine O’Rourke.
Until she shows up at his studio meeting the next day with a completely different name.
A world-wide press tour and too many late-night parties later, Beth simply needs to get through a short, one-day visit during the Christmas holiday, and then she’ll be free of Cyrus Malcom’s confusing hot looks and cold shoulders for good.
But just as they leave the airport, it starts to snow . . .
‘Drama King’ is the second book in the Three Kings Series, is a full-length, contemporary romantic comedy, and can be read as a complete standalone.
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Dianna Sinovic, Featured Author
December 14, 2022 by Dianna Sinovic in category Featured Author of the Month tagged as Dianna Sinovic, Featured Author of the Month, Quill and Moss, Short Stories
Author of the Month: Dianna Sinovic
Dianna is a contributing author in the last three anthologies from The Bethlehem Writers Group, An Element of Mystery: Sweet, Funny and Strange Tales of Intrigue, Fur, Feathers, and Scales, Sweet, Funny and Strange Animal Tales and Untethered, Sweet, Funny & Strange Tales of the Paranormal. She has also contributed stories for the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable ezine, including “In the Delivery.”
Born and raised in the Midwest, Dianna has also lived in three other quadrants of the U.S. She writes short stories and poetry, and is working on a full-length novel about a young woman in search of her long-lost brother.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Horror Writers Association, The American Medical Writers Association, and The Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC.
Dianna also has a regular column here on A Slice of Orange, titled Quill and Moss, in which she frequently includes short fiction.
Below, you can also listen to Dianna read her short story, “Cold Front” from the GLVWG Writes Stuff anthology.
Other books by Dianna Sinovic
Holiday Books by Debra H. Goldstein
December 13, 2022 by Bethlehem Writers Group in category From a Cabin in the Woods by Members of Bethlehem Writers Group
A prolific number of writers comprise the Bethlehem Writers Group. The upcoming holidays make this the perfect time to become acquainted with a new author or to simply grab copies of your favorite author’s books for stocking stuffers.
Short Stories:
AN ELEMENT OF MYSTERY: SWEET, FUNNY, AND STRANGE TALES OF INTRIQUE (2022)—From classic whodunits to tales of the unexplained, each of the twenty-three stories in this brand-new collection from BWG writers will leave you guessing and wanting to read just one more story.
CHRISTMAS ON NANTUCKET AND OTHER STORIES (2019)—Multiple award-winning author Carol L. Wright is known for capturing the nuances of family dynamics with vivid, relatable characters. This collection brings you her heartfelt stories with a mix of joy and sadness, love and loss, celebrations of all seasons, and a bit of mystery and magic. As it takes you through the year with compassion and humor, it is sure to touch your heart…and perhaps inspire you.
OFF THE RAILS A COLLECTION OF WEIRD, WICKED, AND WACKY STORIES (2019)—In this eclectic collection, Jerome W. McFadden takes a warped view of life in twenty-six fast-paced tales that explore the satirical edges of crime, paranoia, human foibles, and the afterlife. Some of the stories are weird, some wicked, some wacky, but all contain the unexpected twists born of McFadden’s unique sense of humor and dark imagination.
Cozy Mystery:
FIVE BELLS TOO MANY (2022)—As readers of One Taste Too Many found, for culinary challenged Sarah Blair, there is only one thing scarier than murder—and that’s the kitchen. In this fifth addition to the series, Sarah’s mother, Maybelle, who requires higher maintenance than Sarah’s Siamese cat, is a finalist in a competition for the perfect Southern wedding, and Sarah is forced into being her mother’s chaperone. After the show’s producer is found dead, with Sarah’s greatest nemesis kneeling by his body, Sarah must find the true killer before another contestant or crew member is permanently eliminated.
Children’s Books:
TANYA AND THE BABY ELEPHANT (2021) – Wouldn’t it be great to have a baby elephant as a pet? But baby elephants don’t stay babies forever and may miss their mothers. A charming book by Peter J Barbour.
Science Fiction and Fantasy:
THE DEATH OF MAGIC (2022)—For thousands of years, merciless dragons ruled the land, magical people their only food. But as magic itself began to die, the birthrate of magical people dwindled. Facing starvation, the heinous beasts ate the only magical beings they could find—each other. Now Saoirse, the last magical person, is hunted by the last surviving dragon. Kidd Wadsworth’s novel is being serialized one chapter a week for free on Scribble Hub.
MY FRIEND JACKSON (2020) by Christopher D. Ochs. Jasmine Price’s days are filled with emotional, physical, and cyber abuse at the hands of her new school’s queen bees. Rivalries, jealousies, and hatred escalate toward Jasmine, until a monstrous force intervenes with deadly consequences.
Featured Books
CHRISTMAS ON NANTUCKET AND OTHER STORIES
Heartfelt stories with a mix of joy and sadness, love and loss, celebrations of all seasons, and a bit of mystery and magic
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