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This is one of those free online writing courses that break with the traditional approach to teaching writing. You will learn what I have learned about turning personal occurrences into stories. Let these stages of writing development be inspirational, a springboard to good writing habits.
Tips for writing a story will be given as we analyze the first exciting chapter of each of my first two published novels.
Discussion will begin with the curious manner in which I came up with the ideas for each of my novels. Exciting first chapters will be posted along with analysis of their composition.
An outline for writing a novel and a story synopsis, along with myriad other book composition instructions, will be posted.
My four published novels are The Tropics: Child of a Storm-Caught in a Rip-Hurricane Secret, an adventure/suspense, The Ka, a paranormal Egyptian suspense, River Bones, an award winning mystery/thriller, Down to the Needle, a thriller.
My latest novel, Down to the Needle, a thriller, is yet another story that's loaded with writing prompts and ideas.
Click on the BOOK COVERS anywhere on this site to purchase copies from amazon, and for KINDLE too.
To order AUTOGRAPHED COPIES from ME, go to any of the pages for each book listed at the bottom. On those pages choose "Add to Cart."
Down to the Needle is a thriller set in a fictitious locale on the West Coast.
A woman's long search for her abducted daughter leads to a young woman on Death Row who is only months away from lethal injection for a crime she didn't commit.
The book is available in Paperback, Hard Cover, eBook for Kindle and other hand held readers.
River Bones, a mystery/thriller, is set in my childhood hometown area.
A mystery surrounds the lush orchards and farmlands of California’s Sacramento River Delta. As Sara Mason returns to her hometown in order to start a new life, she learns that a serial killer is terrorizing its residents... Sara is a woman whose destiny has brought her back home, but her decision may lead her down a path lined with danger and straight into the arms of a madman in this captivating thriller.
River Bones is also available in HARDCOVER. Those interested can click on the book cover. Then, in Amazon, the paperback page has a link to the Hardcover, ISBN 0-595-71751-9.
The book is available in Paperback, Hardcover, eBook and on Kindle and other hand held readers.
Purchase an eBook copy of River Bones direct from the publisher: iUniverse.com
Read about another big award for River Bones.
The Ka is a paranormal Egyptian fantasy that takes place mostly in Valley of the Queens, Egypt. It's slip-stream, transporting the reader back and forth between a modern-day archaeological dig and Egypt's 18th Dynasty.
Archaeologists discover a tomb and begin deciphering the hieroglyphs. They have no way of knowing that the glyphs are coded with spells and magic that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
The Ka is available in Paperback and on Amazon Kindle.
The Tropics is an adventure novel that takes place in both the Caribbean and Hawaiian Islands.
As one local newspaper writer said in her review: “Based on Deal’s real-life, near-death experiences and shatters notions of stereotypical islands of paradise.”
To that I would add that The Tropics is ...about life beyond the façade of tropical breezes and swaying palm trees, with people being stretched to the limits of survival.
SPECIAL NOTE: The Tropics is out of print. Used copies are still around. However, I have rewritten the book and published it as an eBook. Read about the exciting expansion of the stories under the new title and cover, Legacy of the Tropics.
Too, if you've landed on this page and plan read the news about Legacy, you might also wish to read the Reader Reviews for The Tropics. The stories are the same but greatly enhanced, so the same comments in those reviews would apply. I'll be posting any new reviews for Legacy on that book's page.
NOTE: I wrote a feature screenplay for Child of a Storm, the first story in The Tropics. My very first screenplay made the Semi-Finals of a Moondance International Film Festival competition.
- If you are interested in writing screenplays, visit
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Truly, writing prompts and ideas are found everywhere. Writing prompts and ideas can be found in books by your favorite authors.
Tips for writing a story will include topics like writing prompts and ideas, writing and grammar, writing in third person, multi-genre writing, book writing format, writing character sketches, and so much more.
So... where have you found your writing prompts and ideas?
Click on the Book Covers anywhere on this site to purchase copies from amazon, or for Kindle downloads.
To order AUTOGRAPHED COPIES from ME, go to any of the pages listed below. On those pages choose "Add to Cart."
The first chapters of each novel, and more, is analyzed on the following pages:
More Tropics and PHOTOS in the Media Room
Writing a Book Review and PHOTOS
More River Bones and PHOTOS in the Media Room
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