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And the 3rd book in The World of Fae, THE WINGED FAE is available!
I'm working on another couple in the series, and also Tom's story of the wolf fame! :)
The Winged Fae
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Serena, a royal member of the Mabara winged fae, has one goal in mind. Stop an impending marriage with a dark fae. As the fae are known to do, she stirs up trouble that she hopes will make her point and get her off the hook. Only nothing goes as she plans.
Niall, a royal member of the Denkar, aka the dark fae, is visiting South Padre Island when he catches a winged fae painting graffiti on a wall on the island claimed by his people. He is at once fascinated with the lovely girl and intrigued by her audacity, but as one of the Denkar, he must take her to task. Yet she's armed with a sleeping potion that makes his life intolerable. Between freeing her from his people's dungeon, her own tower, and fighting a knight in her honor, he wonders if he's lost his mind over one beautiful winged fae--when she's betrothed to his cousin!
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B & NAmazonAReSmashwordsIn The World of Fae, I have also highlighted a location I love--South Padre Island, Texas. It's just as magical a place as Salado is to me.
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on 8/20/2011
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Trying to conserve water, reduce evaporation, all that sort of thing, I spread bark mulch underneath my shrubs. It looks nicer than bare earth too. Great idea, right?
Except for one thing. My neighbor has chickens and they dig in it. So every time that I sweep it off the brick walkway and back under my shrubs, the chickens invade and scratch it all back onto my patio.
That's me above. Only I don't get the eggs!
When I lived in Oklahoma, we had problems with a neighbor who had cows. He believed since he sold the land to folks on the ridge and the rest of the land around us was his cattle grazing land, he shouldn't have to fence them in. That we had to fence his cattle out. Didn't work. The calves got beyond my split rail fence, the cows reached their heads underneath the lower posts and yanked out all of my newly planted shrubs, killing them. After all that work of planting around 30 shrubs, I was pretty angry.
Now, I like animals. And I have to admit those doe-eyed cows and calves tugged at my heart, but the farmer only cared about eating them. And he didn't care anything about what they did to the properties that he'd sold to others.
Free range went out a couple of centuries ago! Free range meant he could graze his cattle anywhere. Then barbed wire fencing came into fashion. Instead of barbed wire though...I just got a lawyer's letter explaining we weren't living in "that" world any longer and he had to fence his cows to keep them contained off our property. He moved his cows, knowing he couldn't put fences up here, and there, and everywhere. Too many homesteads. The property all cut up. Talk about wanting your beef and eating it too!
I still love living out with the "wild" animals.
Only, I wish they'd quit messing with my garden! The good thing about the chickens is they do eat bugs. Have at it! I've got plenty of those!
Ever have problems with neighbor's pets???
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on 8/17/2011
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See the little path and the slight rise in the hill and then the hole in the rock? That's an entrance to the castle.
I just loved it. I could envision guarding that entrance from enemies, or hoping that if I entered through there, I would be thought of as friend, not foe.
The castle sat high above cliffs so not easily accessible.
I envisioned the lairds who ruled over the castle and lands--whether they be the usual sort, a little wolfish, or even part of the fae world. :)
So if you visited here in the distant past, who would you have encountered?
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on 8/16/2011
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Some thought that the blurred photo I used in The Dark Fae book trailer was photo shop magic.
But it's really true fae magic.
Okay, here's the secret: We were driving through a really cool tunnel of trees. I was sitting in the back seat, trying to take pictures of everything and anything, and I wanted desperately to take a picture of this mystical area after leaving the B&B. We drove through it several times, seeing a deer in the thick forest the one time as we had to find a place to eat dinner, and we ventured onto one of the islands the next day and returned to the B&B that night.
So I took the photo from the back seat, trying to get a picture through the windshield. We were really going slow as it was pretty much a one-car road and it wound around so you couldn't see head-on traffic coming up. Actually, if I had been driving, we would have been going slower. Which would have meant we probably wouldn't have seen half as much of Scotland as we did! :)
Luckily, we only encountered another car coming from the opposite direction once. And the other good part was that it didn't matter which side of the road we drove on. There weren't two sides. :)
Clever, the Scots, eh?
The only thing I photo shopped out was the rear view mirror, that had the nerve to be in the picture, and a little bit of one of the head rests, same story. :)
And that's the story...how we fae transported in Scotland. :)
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on 8/13/2011
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Who needs sleep? Well, I do.
But when the story is keeping me awake, I have to write it or I'll keep thinking about it over and over, trying to "remember" it for when I wake. Which can have disastrous consequences. In other words, I don't recall anything I thought of once I wake. Or, I don't ever sleep, and still can't remember what I was thinking of.
So what happens when the story hits in the middle of the night?
I see full scenes.
Sometimes it just happens. Last night, I woke from a nightmare and couldn't quit thinking about work and whatnot, and couldn't get back to sleep. So I forced myself to think about a scene in The Winged Fae I needed to write.
And that's when it happened.
I can stare at my computer screen every minute I have free from work and not get anything written. So sometimes I just have to get away from the computer and brainstorm, and then if it comes to me, I begin to write it down by long hand.
Which is why I'm up really early typing my notes up now.
Well, actually, I never got back to sleep.
It's really a major scene, the turning point in the story. I need to write more that leads up to it. And flesh it out more, but I actually wrote the whole scene--9 pages long, 3,000 words. :)
Less than 9,000 words to go and The Winged Fae will be done!
Did it come to me in a dream? Absolutely not. I was fully awake, sort of. Now I'm even less so.
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I told you the fae are mischievous!
Terry
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The Beast Within
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EnglishB&NAmazon Kitta Sjoni is a troubled teen, but not in the usual sense. Plagued by visions of 10th Century Viking marauders is only a tip of the problems she faces. Killing a curse and taming the beast within—that’s her goal, but can she survive the test?
Bjornolf Jorgenson, beleaguered by marauder nightmares, is drawn to Kitta, the clone of the girl from his visions. She’s the only one who doesn’t shy away from his uncontrollable rages, but she draws trouble like a sponge soaks up unmanageable spills. What is his real connection to the spunky teen and can he help her, like she wants to help him before it’s too late?
When I lived in Oklahoma, we lived just a few minutes from a place where Vikings had carved runestones in rocks. Norsemen graffiti? Leif Ericson was here?
In any event, I was always fascinated with the idea and so THE BEAST WITHIN was born--a love that could never die between two teens of Norwegian descent, a curse that transcends all time, a berserker rage that cannot be quelled.
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on 1/17/2011
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The birthday bear is done with her very own autographed The Vampire...In My Dreams! I still need to finish the Scottish bear once the fabric gets here, for the other bear in the order. And then they'll be ready to ship!
For the silent auction at Australia Romance Readers, I'll be shipping a couple of mohair bears, their tags autographed, and these autographed books:Legend of the White Wolf, To Tempt the Wolf, Destiny of the Wolf, Seduced by the Wolf, Wolf Fever, Winning the Highlander's Heart, and The Vampire...In My Dreams.
And another copy of an autographed
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By:
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on 9/25/2010
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Wolves can jump 35 feet, and here is a wolf dog who successfully leapt out of her pen--twice. Even though she's really loving toward humans, and she's very dog-like, she's very wolf like too when you look into her eyes, don't you think?
Why would she not be home with a family? I had a standard poodle once, given to me by a woman whose health was failing. I already had a standard poodle, so took in Angelina too. The name means Angel, although she was far from it. Totally loving, yes, but she had so many faults, one of the biggest--digging out and running.
After the two incidents with the wolf dog, it made me think of how impossible it would be for someone to keep the animal confined in a normal yard with normal fencing. Obviously, even the higher than normal double fencing didn't keep this wolf-dog inside her pen!
So even if the wolf dog is totally good natured, there can be other problems with keeping them.
Here I am petting the wolf dog who had happily just come back from a walk, and she was very thirsty! They kept feeding her ice chips when I thought she needed a nice bowl of water. For the hot climate here, they had misters in each of the pens.
Have a super Saturday! I'm off to work! :)
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on 9/18/2010
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on 9/14/2010
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This was one of the wolves that was walked when we were at the St Francis Wolf Sanctuary. She's a beta, as you can see from the way she stands. She was thrilled to go for a walk, yet she kept her ears back, her tail tucked between her legs, her body slightly bowed.
She has always lived alone, so she stays alone in her pen, while all the other wolves or wolf dogs had companions. But those who managed the sanctuary felt she wouldn't allow anyone in her pen to share it. She's the only one of the full blooded wolves that they walk. She loves the man who walked her here, but some women, she doesn't like he told us!
When you see the wolf like this, it reminded me so much of one of my standard poodles, how she would do this on occasion.
I'm wondering, though, if she found the right male, would she be happy to share her pen with him?
Of course, she would. :)
Have a super Wednesday! And remember, whether a beta wolf or alpha, everyone deserves a delectable mate!
Terry
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I made a 5 hour round trip to Montgomery, Texas to see wolves and wolf dogs that have been taken into protective custody at St Francis Wolf Sanctuary.
It was hard to get a picture of the carved wolf head beyond the gate, but here is the gate to the estate of the St Francis Wolf Sanctuary.
I wanted to share a few blogs about the various animals/sightings, and am working diligently on Heart of the Highland Wolf edits since it's due on Monday. So I've really got to get back to it. But here is the first of the stories.
Part of the reason I write that my werewolves have long lives is I don't want them to lose their mates at an early age. This is a part wolf, part dog, but looks very much like a wolf and acted like one, who lost his mate, Spirit, three weeks earlier. This was the first time he came out of his home to sit on top of it after losing her.
He actually came to the fence and howled a couple of times, but it was hard to get a picture of them howling. They'd howl, then pace and with their long legs, moved very quickly.
One thing that can distinguish a wolf from a wolf dog is the narrow chest, longer legs, and many constantly paced around their pens. Arctic wolves do have shorter legs and ears though. Arctic wolves are gray wolves also.
But he really did come out of his grief somewhat to finally come to the fence and participate a little in the excitement caused by visitors and volunteers who were there to see them and that was good to see. He was very alpha--his ears always perked up. I'll show a very beta wolf also--and how different the posture.
Hope you all have a great Sunday!
Back to work!
Terry
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I love to play RPGs (Role Playing Games) but I've never played The Prince of Persia. The movie was wonderful. After work last night, my daughter and I went to dinner and then saw the movie--
It had adventure, romance, mystery, fantasy, and delightful humor. I loved it!!! And it made me want to write a story just like that!
So if you love all of the above, you might want to check it out. Really, really enjoyed it!
Well, I had planned on getting WAY ahead on Dreaming of the Wolf, but I just received Wolf Fever edits, so need to work on those also this weekend.
But I wanted to share another one of my very favorite wolfish characters!!!
Hmm, isn't he just awfully dreamy?
And his eyes, very, very wolf like. It's a combination of come hither, and I'm coming after you---so yep, he's a wolf all right!
And he's definitely in Heart of the Highland Wolf, complete with sword.
I had a wonderful fan facebook me, asking if I was going to put my books into movies--yes!!! As soon as someone sends the contract, I'm signing. The only stipulation? I get to meet the male hunks applying for the main roles (and 2ndary roles....you never know when one of them might be the next major hunk star) so they can prove to me how wolfish they truly are. :)
Wouldn't you love to see the wolves in a movie of their own??? :)
Have a super Saturday!!!
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This month's theme is about motherhood and new beginnings. But today also is May Day. :)
In August, my new release is Seduced by the Wolf, where Leidolf Wildhaven has his heart set on a loner red wolf, and Cassie Roux has other notions in mind. It's spring and the time for wolf pups and the rebirth of the trees and flowers--
but as a wolf biologist, who had been raised by wolves after her family perishes, she is dedicated to the wolf's cause. And that means, she has no intention of mixing it up with an alpha male leader, who's looking for a mate.
Leidolf believes the werewolf's cause is just as important, if not more so, and therein lies the difficulty.
I was just watching a film about a man who's lost his wife of many years, and how desolate he becomes. Until he saves a wolf's puppies after the she-wolf is killed. The wife had been feeding the she-wolf before she died, and he had shown no interest in the wolf. It showed how even a guy can be a great mother to a pack of wolves when they need him--ahem, of course he had to have an angel intervene to point out the way to him, but after that...well, it was fun watching him playing with the wolves. :) And how that nurturing side of him made him live again.
But Seduced by the Wolf was based in part on a true story, where a wolf biologist rescued a she-wolf and her pups after her mate is killed. And it had a happily ever after for her...just like with mine!!! Wolves and werewolves alike.
Although, not for the bad guys. :)
I was reading an account of two Blackfeet who found a single wolf pup alive in a den, the others having drowned because of flooding, the alpha male and female frantic, but unable to reach them. The one Blackfoot took the pup and raised him, and twice, once from a raiding Crow war party and another time from a Sioux, the wolf saved them, even though it would have nothing to do with the dogs in the Blackfeet camp, and the other braves were reluctant to take the wolf on raids. But then, the wolf left the camp more often, and finally quit returning to the brave who had raised him. And then, he returned with another wolf, but this one wouldn't approach the camp. Then restless, he left and a year later, returned with another wolf. He took off with her and they were never seen again. His friends told him to find another wolf pup to raise, but he simply said, "No."
Was the wolf his mate? I'd like to think so, and he ended up with a litter
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Well, if you were a werewolf and shapeshifted, here's what it would look like.
The other wolf is so surprised, it twists around in and looks at the projecting tongue, not sure to what to think of it.
Yep, even as adults, we stick out our tongue. Mostly in playfulness. At least I hope!
The other wolf isn't pay any attention. It's just between these two wolves. Which is as it should be. Just because one wolf behaves a certain way toward another, there's no reason that all of them in the pack have to pay any attention to it. :)
It's personal. :)
Sticking one's tongue out might not be as acceptable a practice as you grow up, but how about eye rolling? Wolves haven't learned that one yet, but works for me!
Then again, there are perfectly acceptable reasons to stick out one's tongue--to capture a snowflake, to lick one's lips, to make a face when something is intolerably horrible tasting.
One of the most memorable "tongue" scenes for me was in Star Wars, when Princess Leia, slave girl, was accosted by Jabba's huge licking tongue. :) Yuck. :)
You've probably heard of the sticking a tongue out at something frozen to see what happens, and getting it stuck. My grandmother and her twin sister did that when they lived in Portage-la-Prairie...or they might have been in Treherne, Manitoba by then. But one dared the other to touch a metal pole in freezing weather and, yep, wet tongue stuck to frozen metal. Works every time. Now, how to get it unstuck? Their mom had to bring water. Hmmm, the other twin didn't test the theory, and the one that did, luckily didn't lose any tongue over it (tongue in cheek here), but forever they'd know the answer to their question. Wet tongue to frozen metal means you aren't going anywhere anytime soon. :) And if you're lucky, someone will rescue you.
Sooo, have you stuck your tongue out at anyone lately? Or tempted fate???
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Doesn't this look like a place where ghosts could exist?
Ever encounter a ghost in your wanderings? I have...it wasn't the usual human type spirit though.
Here I was, sleeping on a cold night with our Army ROTC cadets on the rocky ground in Palo Duro Canyon. But not sleeping exactly. Everyone else was, but I'm born of the Princess and the Pea blood...which means, anything can bruise
me.
So the lumpy, rocky ground kept me awake, the cold, the sounds in the night, the breeze stirring over the cliffs, the thought rattlesnakes, or tarantulas, or scorpions would seek heat would find their way into my sleeping bag, kept me awake. I stared at the sky that stretched forever. The
Texas sky does, you know. In other places, mountains and trees and buildings might break up the sky, but not out there. Not in the vast wilderness that was the Panhandle of Texas. The stars sparkled across the dark sky like jewels twinkling in the night. And I was frustrated with myself for not being able to sleep, knowing we had to run up and down the hills in the morning to search for clues on an orienteering course.
Sometime during that night, I finally drifted off, but then heard the sound of horses running, stampeding in our direction. They snorted and whinnied and the sound was frightening. I recalled deer running through our friends' tent
when we camped off an island in our boat in a lake in California. They don't go around, I thought. The horses will run straight through us and trample us to death. I tried to wake my sister who was sleeping in a bag next to me. She grumbled at me to leave her alone and I watched the others in
the dark. No one heard the noise but me.
I lay back hoping that the horses would skirt around us. I realized the pounding of hooves didn't shake the ground like it should have. Maybe they were too far away. And then, they moved off in the distance, fading until they were gone. I lay awake for a long time, unable to get over how close we could have been to being trampled, fearing their return. That they'd switch back and come this way again.
And then finally, I was able to sleep and before I knew it, we were sitting at a campfire, cold, achy, having breakfast. I asked about the wild horses. Our cadre said there could be. Sure. But no one had heard anything last night.
Years later, I wanted to write about the wild horses for a magazine, only when I began to research them, I learned others had heard the ghost ponies in the dead of the night. I sat slack-jawed reading the accounts. Ghost ponies? For years, I had believed they were real. The sound of their running, snorts, whinnies were real. It happened.
But they were whispers of the past--of soldiers running Indian ponies off the cliffs in an attempt to keep the gathered tribes from fighting back. Without their horses, the tribes could no longer be mobile. They could no longer mount any campaigns.
The horses were terrified and were driven to their deaths. And now, they live in the canyon forever, a memory of past deeds, a remembrance of their past life.
So what about you? Have you had any ghostly experiences???
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Although my werewolf tales are adult romance novels, older teens are enjoying them. In the second book, Destiny of the Wolf, I have a group of werewolf teens who get into trouble and one who has to deal with teen pregnacy. And in the fifth book, Seduction of the Wolf, another set of werewolf teens, including one teen heartthrob, who create problems, due out in April 2010.
My stories are based more on real wolves than a fantasy werewolf tale, so much so that reviewers say:
“Centers on pack problems in a refreshingly straightforward
way. The characters are well drawn and believable, which makes the contemporary plotline of love and life among the lupus garou seem, well, realistic.”—The Romantic Times
Heart of the Wolf~~
"Her wolf world feels at once palpable and even plausible." Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year
And in the fall of 2010, another yet to be titled werewolf tale has some teens also. Not only do the teens have the typical human hormonal problems, but as werewolves, they have to deal with the wolf side of their psyche.
To Tempt the Wolf, 3rd book in the series has a Sep 1 release date. No teens in this one, but hey, they're still fun to read! :)
Terry
www.terrywildeteenbooks.com
Jul 14-Aug 8 2008
What a Character!!! Jump from Cookie Cutter to Great 3-Dimensional Characters in Your Writing!
How many times have you heard how important it is to have 3-dimensional characters? That the publisher wants character-driven stories, not plot-driven? To show, not tell? But how easy is it to really write characters that come alive on the page? Some writers have a natural ability to concoct terrific characters who are full of life. Then there are the rest of us who need some help. In this workshop, Terry Spear will show the difference between average characterizations and those that will get noticed! In this online class, which features lectures, discussion, practical exercises, and handouts, she'll teach students how to captivate readers with engaging characters.
3 lessons per week, plus mini-lessons, critique and comment on everyone's exercises!
Terry Spear has published in many genres, including romantic suspense, contemporary, paranormal, and under the name Terry Lee Wilde, young adult paranormal and fantasy romances. She's the author of
Winning The Highlander's Heart (Vintage),
The Vampire...In My Dreams, Deadly Liaisons (Samhain),
Heart of the Wolf, April, 2008 Don't Cry Wolf, April 2009, Betrayal of the Wolf, Allure of the Wolf (Sourcebooks),
Deidre's Secret, Relative Danger (Wild Rose Press). She also writes nonfiction for numerous genealogy, WWII, teen, and family magazines, and has had romantic fiction published in magazines. Currently, she's working on her latest werewolf adult novel,
Allure of the Wolf. Her website:
http://www.terryspear.com/
I finally went out and bought The Witcher....with the caveat I could not play it until I got some of my writing done....and reviewing done...and blogging done. But then when my son came home from college, we had to "check" it out just to make sure it's working. Got to or if I waited to late I couldn't take it back to the store, right?
Right.
And then I had to play a little of it. Just a little. Okay, well, maybe just to the next quest. Uhm, one more quest. Another quest. Well, this is going to be the very last quest! Sigh.
My daughter wants to play too...but she's better than me....too much school work she needs to finish before she gets hooked on the game.
They're addictive. What can I say? It's like reading a good book, which I also did last night and will be posting a review shortly on WritersareReaders.com, but if the story hooks you enough, you keep reading. The game hooks you enough, you keep playing.
After a very violent stormy night and a stormy day, I'm concentrating on editing Betrayal of the Wolf and writing the review of Where the Heart Leads. After that???
I'm gonna help the witchers out and learn some more powerful magic spells, I hope. :) Oh, and find something better than a rusty sword too. And solve just a quest...or two.
As I blogged about here, recently I finished the illustrations for my book What Can You Do with an Old Red Shoe?... the next step after the interior illustrations are painted is to make a jacket sketch. Some people do this earlier on I think, but I tend to always do it last, after the characters have been worked out and I know what the inside of the book is going to look like.
For this book, I thought the jacket sketch should reflect the fact that most of the interior illustrations are spots, so I started by sketching some spots of the characters here:
The interior layout also has a lot of borders that tie each spread together. Again I thought the jacket should refelct the interior design by having a border too, so I loosely sketched these outlines around the spots I'd drawn (on a seperate piece of tracing paper):
Once I scanned the sketch and opened it in Photoshop, I added some tones to the background border:
Combining all elements, I came up with a few different variations for the jacket:
Here I reduced the amount of characters on the layout, and blew them up a bit:
Here I did an additional border, to see what that would look like:
Now I wait to see what my editor says! Which one do you like best?
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on 1/8/2008
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Engaging the Reader from Start to FinishInstructor: Terry Spear
Cost: $25.00 payable by PayPal
Deadline to Register: January 30th
For more information go to:
http://www.pasic.net/classes.htmlSlow starts and sleepy endings to scenes and chapters can ruin a manuscript's chance of being published. Conversely, solid hooks can make the sale – as workshop instructor Terry Spear demonstrates, with six publishers currently hooked for six manuscripts. Setting such practical matters aside, what author wouldn't be thrilled to hear someone say, "I couldn't put the book down"? Strong hooks are a vital ingredient in strong writing. In this online class, which features lectures, discussion, practical exercises, and handouts, she'll teach students how to captivate readers with great openings, scene hooks, chapter cliff hangers, and intriguing back cover blurbs. Participants will master the hook in all its environments, from the query letter through the novel.
About the Instructor: Terry Spear has published in many genres, including historical romantic suspense, contemporary, urban fantasy, and under the name Terry Lee Wilde, young adult paranormal and fantasy romances. She's the author of Winning the Highlander's Heart, is a debut paranormal author for Sourcebooks with the urban fantasy, Heart of the Wolf, coming April 1st, and The Vampire…In My Dreams is already out. Deadly Liaisons is coming in November. She also writes nonfiction for numerous genealogy, WWII, teen, and family magazines, and has had romantic fiction published in magazines. Currently, she's working on a sequel to Heart of the Wolf, Betrayal of the Wolf.
Her website:
http://www.terryspear.com/Deadline to Register: January 30th
For more information go to:
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At long last I finished my deadline last Friday, all the art save the jacket is completed for What Can You Do with an Old Red Shoe?, my poetry/recycling/craft book! I am very excited. The project was a massive undertaking: I wrote poetry for the first time, wrote step-by-step instructions for green art activities, and painted about a million tiny, tiny, tiny spots of art.
At first I thought doing a book full of spots would be less work than a regular picture book, since there was less paper to cover, but ultimately doing such tiny, detailed illustrations was pretty demanding. But I am happy with the result and can't wait to do recycling oriented presentations and workshops around the book.
Here is how everything looked spread out on my floor. I like to look at everything at once before I turn in a book, it gives me a sense of accomplishment. Although sometimes it also feels bizarre to think that such a relatively small amount of paper demanded so much attention and obsession...
These are some of my favorites from the stack... Jack the bunny who recycles his worn out blanket:
Andrea the cat who makes planters out of her shoes:
Jon the cat who makes a re-usable calender:
And Peter the bear who makes tin can lanterns:
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Congrats!! Downloading sample from SmashW to read in bed tonight ^^
Thanks, Carol! Enjoy! A boyhood friend of my son's Facebooked me and said they're thinking of taking down the stones with the Runes carved on them. That is such a shame. It truly was what inspired me to write this story. :)