The Girl in the Green Raincoat Laura Lippman Avon 01-10-11 Hardcover/176 pages ISBN: 978-0061938368 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . homage to Hitchcock. ...well-written and riveting. . ." Real world mystery with authenticity and...
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The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
The Red Garden Alice Hoffman Crown 01-10-11 Hardcover/288 pages ISBN: 978-0307393876 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . a ride that you will never want to end." There are many places tucked away in the East Coast hills. As you...
A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy
A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy Simon & Schuster 1-10-11 Hardcover/411 pages ISBN: 978-1439199138 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . .thrilling and interesting and satisfying." Solid writing with well-rounded and interesting...
The Sentinel Mage by Emily Gee
Her magic may be the only thing that can save a princeand the Seven Kingdoms. In a distant corner of the Seven Kingdoms, an ancient curse festers and grows, consuming everything in its path. Only one man can break it: Harkeld of Osgaard, a prince with mage’s blood in his veins.
The Truth About Grief by Ruth Davis Konigsberg
The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience loss-a personal or national one-we hear them recited: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The stages are invoked to explain everything from how we will recover from the death of a loved one to a sudden environmental catastrophe or to the trading away of a basketball star. But the stunning fact is that there is no validity to the stages that were proposed by psychiatrist Elisabeth KÜbler-Ross more than forty years ago.
THE PLAY’S THE THING: Part 3: Rewriting On Your Own
With the new year I am beginning Part III of my series on the nuts and bolts of playwriting, inception to production. Part III will focus on the rewriting process. Remember as in all forms of writing, plays are not written, they are rewritten. I cannot stress enough the importance of that statement. There are, in reality, two different parts of the rewriting process, the private and the public.
Inhabiting a Work of Prose
Inhabiting a Work of Prose by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro January 2011 ". . .live inside the novel for both the writer and the reader." —Shapiro In reviews on the back of a jacket, aside from “lucid,” and “scintillating,” I...
American Rose by Karen Abbott
Rose Louise, known to the world as Gypsy Rose Lee, was an enigma: a beautiful woman with an ever changing story who had more secrets hidden up her sleeve than a magician. Her history changed as often as she changed her gloves and, like the tease she was, she obscured more with each retelling. Gypsy Rose Lee was intelligent, frustrating, talented, gifted and damaged.
Feelings First
FEELINGS FIRST by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro December 2010 "Your best writing will arise from feelings." —Shapiro A daily writing practice is an important commitment to be a writer. You can’t hang out indefinitely and wait for inspiration to come....
THE PLAY’S THE THING: Crisis, Climax and Resolution
In past columns, I have mentioned the terms Climax and Resolution. I would like to explore these story elements in more detail along with Crisis, another important element. In my column on Rising Action, I explained how each scene builds incrementally and logically to a climactic scene. That scene, often called the obligatory scene is essential to good playwriting.
