Thwarting Desire: Digging Your Plot by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro September 2010 ". . .stories that stick in our minds are the ones where the character is desperate for something or someone . . ." —Shapiro All of us are driven by our needs, our...
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THE PLAYS THE THING: Part 2 By Dale Griffiths Stamos
THE PLAYS THE THING Part 2: First Draft Character: An arc is an Arc By Dale Griffiths Stamos September 2010 Authorlink welcomes award-winning playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos as a regular monthly columnist. "Story really is about...
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Juliet Anne Fortier Ballantine 8-24-10 Hardcover/464 pages ISBN: 978-0-345-51610-7 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . a debut novel that will make all readers truly wish that she could write faster . . ." Every once in a while...
Book of Days by Emily Fox Gordon
Book of Days Personal Essays Emily Fox Gordon Random House 8-24-10 Hardcover/320 pages ISBN: 978-0-385-52589-3 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . memorable . . ." The poignant insights of alienation and discovery. With a...
The Moses Expedition by Juan Gomez-Jurado
The Moses Expedition Juan Gomez-Jurado Simon & Schuster 08-20-10 Hardcover/386 pages ISBN: 978-1-416590644 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . the characters are well drawn . . ." Father Anthony Fowler, a CIA man...
Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger
Last Night at Chateau Marmont Lauren Weisberger Atria 8-17-10 Hardcover/384 pages ISBN: 978-1-439-13661-4 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . another fantastic story that will keep readers glued to the page . . ." It’s always beyond a...
A Scattered Life by Karen McQuestion
A Scattered Life Karen McQuestion Amazon Encore 8-10-10 Trade Paperback/266 pages ISBN: 978-1-9355-9706-3 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . a beautiful literary novel that will certainly captivate readers . . ." This is most assuredly a...
Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller
Outside the Ordinary World Dori Ostermiller Goldberg McDuffie 8-1-2010 Trade Paperback/384 pages ISBN: 978-0-7783-2889-6 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . carefully delineated plot and finely drawn characters . . ." Atmospheric writing with a...
A Small Death in the Great Glen by A. D. Scott
In the Highlands of 1950s Scotland, a boy is found dead in a canal lock. Two young girls tell such a fanciful story of his disappearance that no one believes them. The local newspaper staffincluding Joanne Ross, the part-time typist embroiled in an abusive marriage, and her boss, a seasoned journalist determined to revamp the paperset out to uncover and investigate the crime. Suspicion falls on several townspeople, all of whom profess their innocence.
Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada?
