BOOK REVIEW: Getting Book Reviews by Rayne Hall
Five-Star Book Review for a helpful title for authors (AND READERS): Getting Book Reviews: Easy, Ethical Strategies for Authors (Writer’s Craft 14), by Rayne Hall.
BOOK REVIEW: Frankly, My Dear: Creating Unforgettable Characters by Melinda Curtis
My book review of Melinda Curtis’s new title for writers, Frankly My Dear: Creating Unforgettable Characters. This “craft” book on the art of fiction is a unique approach (as far as I’m aware), steeped in current psychology, to instruct, inform, and enable novelists to create believable, unforgettable, and consistent characters whose reactions to conflict ring true to readers. 5 stars!
Pleasance? Is that a real name?
Pleasance. That’s an unusual name for a heroine… even for a story set in 1879. Where did it come from? Did you make it up?
Weather as a Fictional Character: The Marshal’s Surrender
Weather can be a character in a book, just like a person or an animal. In the case of The Marshal’s Surrender, Winter is a setting and a villainous character, hiding clues, endangering lives, impacting nearly every scene as a sense of place and timing. Have you ever thought of weather in the role of character?
BOOK REVIEW: Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes
4 STARS for the 1879 title, Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes. As an amateur historian determined to learn what I could about the telegraph and its impact on American society, how it worked, and the challenges telegraphers faced, this sweet (innocent) love story fit the bill!
