Been writing about Plots anf yhe many different ones for many months. Just a few things to clear up. A plot is necessary to a good story. There are as many plots , and some are nearly the same. Just a small point in their journey changed and you have a different plot. What the writer must do is determine which plot serves the purpose.. Remember this "A plot is just a plan to take the characters from the beginning to the end
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Monday, June 24, 2024
Meandering on Monday with Janet Lane Walters #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Reading #Writing #Thoughts
Meander1 - Reading - Have fallen behind lately and must get into the swing. Have 4 new form BWL and must read soon.
Meander 2 Thoughts - The heat is still with us and does somehow keep the mind from being alert. Am looking forward to the debate. Hope it gives good information,
Meander 3 - Writing -Going slowly with the typing.
My Places
https://www.facebook.com/janet.l.walters.3?v=wall&story_f
http://wwweclecticwriter.blogspot.com
https://www.pinterest.com/shadyl717/
Buy Mark
https://bookswelove.net/walters-janet-lane/
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Murder and Poisoned Tea is featured as Sunday's Book #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Mystery #Santa Fe #Kitten
Review
The Mrs. Miller Mysteries series is a sheer delight. Miss Marple and Jessica Fletcher would love Katherine Miller. I know I do. ~~ Writer Gail Roughton
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2023
Readers if your into mystery’s. Janet Lane-Walters is exceptional writer. Her books are hard to put down when your reading them.
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2021
I love this series, though I seldom read cozies. I’m hooked on these books.
My Places
https://www.facebook.com/janet.l.walters.3?v=wall&story_f
http://wwweclecticwriter.blogspot.com
https://www.pinterest.com/shadyl717/
Buy Mark
https://bookswelove.net/walters-janet-lane/
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Saturday Books by Laura Strickland are featured at ecelcticwriter.blogspot.com #Historical #American Orphan train survivor
Amazon UK:
://www.amazon.co.uk/Wylder-Undertaking-West Book
One:
Name:
Slow Train to Nowhere: Sean
Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press
Genre:
American Historical Romance
https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Train-Nowhere-Laura-Strickland-ebook/dp/B0CTHQ5GD1/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.amazon.ca/Slow-Train-Nowhere-Laura-Strickland-ebook/dp/B0CTHQ5GD1/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slow-Train-Nowhere-Laura-Strickland-ebook/dp/B0CTHQ5GD1/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.amazon.com.au/Slow-Train-Nowhere-Laura-Strickland-ebook/dp/B0CTHQ5GD1/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/slow-train-to-nowhere-laura-strickland/1144988471?ean=2940186162094
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/slow-train-to-nowhere-sean
https://books.apple.com/ca/book/slow-train-to-nowhere-sean/id6478923490
Name:
A Walk on the Wylder Side
Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press
Genre:
Western Historical Romance
https://www.amazon.ca/Walk-Wylder-Side-West-ebook/dp/B08L732XQ9/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Walk-Wylder-Side-West/dp/150923425X/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-walk-on-the-wylder-side
https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-walk-on-the-wylder-side/id1539083043
Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press
Genre:
Western Historical Romance
https://www.amazon.com/Wylder-Undertaking-West-ebook/dp/B08TW5V17Y/ref=sr_1_1
Barnes & Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-wylder-undertaking-laura-strickland/1138678096?ean=2940162304142
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-wylder-undertaking
iTunes:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-wylder-undertaking/id1550787615
Friday, June 21, 2024
Friday - Laura Strickland is Visiting and talking about writing
What Were You Before
Day 1
1. What were you before you became an author? Did this
influence your choices as a writer?
Before I was a writer, I was a reader, and this has
influenced me enormously. Being fortunate enough to have an older sister who
loved to read and who took me weekly to our local library, I learned at a young
age to enter that world the author had created for me and become lost in a
story. There was only one problem—when a story I loved came to an end, I wanted
more, longed for more, and imagined more. By third grade, I figured out that if
I wrote the story, it could go on for as long as I chose.
A little of all the stories I loved and the beautiful words
that went into them became part of me and encouraged me to form ideas and
worlds of my own. At a very fundamental level, we are what we read!
2. Are you genre specific or general? I don’t mean major
genres but subdivisions of romance, mystery or paranormal.
I tend to be what I call a genre-hopper. I’ve written a
variety of major and subdivisions of various genres, such as Western,
Victorian, Highlander, Viking, Steampunk (all subdivisions of Historical
Romance) and Contemporary/Rom Com. I think I do this because I begin feeling
stifled if I write the same genre over and over again. Then the words don’t
flow, so I begin something fresh. My latest release is an American Historical
Romance, also a division of the Historical Romance genre.
3. What is your latest release?
My latest release is an American Historical, Slow Train to
Nowhere: Sean. This is the first in a series of four books telling the stories
of five children who came west on the orphan train in 1860, and ended up in the
fictional town of Clabber Mills, Indiana. The stories take place when the
children are grown, and show how they deal with the scars left by loss and
separation, and of course find hope for their futures. Here’s the blurb:
When Sean Hussey returns to the town where he lived as a
boy, it’s with revenge on his mind. He’s made a success of himself out west and
intends to get even with the farmer under whose thumb he once suffered. He’ll
show mercy only to the others who shared his fate in days gone by, especially
sweet Jenny whose memory he still cherishes.
Sarah Rupert hasn’t had it easy growing up as a girl from
the orphan train, and as a survivor of shocking abuse. Since the death of her
husband, she’s had to support her young son by dubious means. When Sean Hussey
comes back into her life it’s a miracle, because he’s the boy she always wanted
for her own. Trouble is, Sean just may be in love with another woman.
4. What are you working on now?
I am currently working on a Historical Romance series set in
the ancient Celtic world, which is one of my favorite places to be. I’ve delved
way back to Ireland in the first century AD for the first book. The other four
will be set in various ages of historical Scotland.
5. Does your reading choices influence your choice of a
writing career?
Absolutely. I love to read far and wide, everything from
Historical Fiction to Romantic Suspense, to Urban Fiction, to Mystery, to Young
Adult. I even enjoy a good biography from time to time. What I’m reading at any
given time depends on the mood I’m in. Since I love to write far and wide also,
I do believe there’s a connection.
6. Where can we find you?
Author Web site: www.laurastricklandbooks.com
Author Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000002632317
Author Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Laura-Strickland/e/B001KHSACW/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Author Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/760146.Laura_Strickland
Author Twitter:
Laura Strickland Author @LauraSt05038951
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurastricklandauthor/
BookBub author page https://www.bookbub.com/authors/laura-strickland
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Thursday - Murder and Mint Tea - the opening scene #BWLAuthor @MFRWAuthor #mystery #Cozy
The pale winter sun shone through the kitchen window. I cleaned up the last of the mess from my adventure. The caper hadn’t gone as planned. How many do? In my many years of life, most of my plans had taken an unexpected turn.
Merup.” Robespierre, my Maine Coon cat, announced a
visitor on the way. He’s almost as good
as a doorbell. The firm rap on the door
told me this wasn’t one of my female friends.
“Come in.”
Pete
Duggan strode across the room and thrust a bouquet of bright carnations into my
hands. A red hue, almost as vivid as his
hair, stained his face. “Mrs. Miller,
got to hand it to you. I’ve come to eat
crow.”
To
hide a smile I buried my face in the flowers and inhaled the spicy
fragrance. “How about chocolate chip
cookies and mint tea instead?”
“Sounds
great.” He straddled one of the chairs
at the table and picked up the local newspaper.
“Local Woman Thwarts Robbers.”
His grin made him look like the ten-year-old who had moved into the
corner house on my block. He cleared his
throat. “The guys at the station ribbed
me about this. Did you forget the plan?”
How,
when the idea to catch the real thieves had been mine? A series of burglaries had plagued the
neighborhood for months and had troubled me.
Especially when the police had decided two teenage neighbor boys were
the culprits. I knew the pair and had
disagreed strongly enough to set myself up as a victim. Then I informed Pete.
“Did
you forget?” he repeated. “When I crept up the stairs and saw you
grappling with one of the men, I nearly had a heart attack.”
Heat
singed my cheeks. “How was I to know my
date would poop out early?”
After
filling two mugs with mint tea I opened a tin of freshly baked cookies. How could I admit to a nagging doubt, or tell
him I had wanted to be part of the action?
In July I had turned sixty-five and in September retired from the
nursing staff at Tappan Zee Memorial Hospital.
Six months of placid existence had made me edgy. Lunch with friends, coffee with the neighbors
and weekly bridge games with old cronies bored me. These events held none of the challenge of
meeting crises at the hospital.
Pete
scowled. “You could have gone to the
Prescott's house.”
“They’re
away.” I sipped the tea and savored the
cool mint flavor.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Bast's Warrior - The Heroine #MFRWHooks #BWLAuthor #Paranormal #time travel #alternate Egypt
Join the authors at #MFRWHooks here http://mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com for some great excerpts. Mine is found at wwweclecticwriter.blogspot.com and features Bast's Warrior.
Tira flees a threat to her life and encounters two elderly women who offer her the chance to be sent to an alternate ancient Egypt with no thought of return. She has had a fascination with Egypt and can even read hieroglyphics. Once there she will be given a task. Failure could mean death. Dare she take the chance and can she find the lost symbols of the rule before an enemy finds them?
Kashe, son of the nomarch of Mero is in rebellion. His father desires him to join the priesthood of Aken Re, a foreign god. He feels he belongs to Horu, god of warriors and justice. He decides to leave home, meets Tira and joins her in the search for the symbols of the rule. Will his aid bring good fortune and will their growing love keep them from making a fatal mistake?
Previously published as The Warrior of Bast
"This engaging voyage into an ancient Egypt that includes power-hungry priests and hazardous treasure hunts entertains from page one. Familial intrigue heightens the tension, as does a kidnapping or two. The cast of characters is dynamic and complements the well-conceived plot." ~ 4 Stars, Susan Mobley, Romantic Times Magazine
Excerpt:
Tira cast her dream self aside and donned the role of practical sister. She hurried to the exit and stepped from the past into a steamy August day. Heat shimmered from the sidewalk. The air hung heavy and filled with the odors of the city and the noises of traffic. She strode along the crowded area taking advantage of every opening.
Ten days to dream. Ten days to walk the halls of the museum. Ten days to study the artifacts that had become her lodestones. She breathed the aromas of real time, spices of cooking foods, metallic scents of passing traffic and the odors of people, some pleasant and some not.
Several blocks from the apartment building the crowds thinned. In an alley she glimpsed furtive movements in the dark shadows. She hurried past. On the corner across the street a group of gang members gathered. She sucked in a breath and held her head high. For all her twenty three years she’d avoided the gangs. As she strode past she heard the usual crude remarks about her body and her attitude.
Get a life, she wanted to scream.
When she saw the ambulance and two cop cars in front of the building where she lived she halted so abruptly she stumbled. A hand caught her arm. Tira saw the gray-streaked beard of one of the winos who slept in the doorways or the alley. “Get your hands off me.”
“Don’t go home,” he whispered. “Lose yourself in the crowd and keep your head down.”
Tira saw a keen intelligence in the man’s dark eyes. Who was he? He wasn’t as old as she had imagined either. “Why?”
“Your sister’s dead. Cops’ll be looking for you. They heard about the fight.”
Tira’s stomach clenched. She blinked away a rush of tears. Though hearing about her sister’s death wasn’t unexpected another dream shattered. There would be no rehab for Luci. “Junkies O.D. every day,” she said.
“She was murdered.”
A chill slithered down Tira’s spine. A rush of acid burned her throat. What? Why? Who? Keeping her eyes on the ground she inched away from him.
“Murder. Murder.” The murmured word spread through the crowd gathered on the sidewalk and stung like attacking wasps.
The EMTs wheeled a gurney from the building. When Tira saw the body bag strapped to the frame her nails bit into her palms. Despite the heat of the day she felt chilled. A wave of guilt made her knees buckle. She stuffed her fist against her mouth to keep from crying aloud.
What now, she wondered. The apartment was a crime scene. Until the cops finished their investigation she wouldn’t be allowed inside. An officer stepped from the building. “More along, folks. There’s nothing to see here.” He stepped from the stoop. “Anyone seen her sister? We have some questions for her.”
My Places
https://www.facebook.com/janet.l.walters.3?v=wall&story_f
http://wwweclecticwriter.blogspot.com
https://www.pinterest.com/shadyl717/
Buy Mark
https://bookswelove.net/walters-janet-lane/
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Tuesday Books by Janice Seagraves are featured today on Blurbs #MFRWAuthor #Romance #Paranormal
Out of this world stories that will leave you breathless
I've launched my Chronicles of Arcon series. The first three books are on kindle unlimited.
The Arcons are coming are you ready?
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Thank you.
Sincerely, Janice Seagraves
Sincerely, Janice Seagraves
Out of this world stories that will leave you breathless
I've launched my Chronicles of Arcon series. The first three books are on kindle unlimited.
The Arcons are coming are you ready?
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On Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 07:12:55 AM PDT, Janet Walters <shadyl717@aol.com> wrote:
Janice, I can put you down for June 24 and 25. Do you remember you're up on April 5 and 6, also. I have no problems with having guests every month, Janet. Directions for the June bit.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FREQUENT VISITORS
c1. Tell me about your latest release or the book you wish to feature? Genre?
2. Where did the idea arise?
3. How much research was involved? Did you stay on point or be distracted by wanting to look at just one more thing?
4. How long did you take to write the book?
5. Now a bit about you. How long have you been writing? What is your Sun Sign?
6. Do you write in a number of genres of stick to one?
7. Where on the internet can you be found?
Day 2
Give the blurbs and buy marks for three of your books.
On Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 06:37:51 PM EDT, Janice Seagraves <janiceseagraves@yahoo.com> wrote:
Okay. Can you set me up in June?
Thank you.
Sincerely, Janice Seagraves
Sincerely, Janice Seagraves
Out of this world stories that will leave you breathless
I've launched my Chronicles of Arcon series. The first three books are on kindle unlimited.
The Arcons are coming are you ready?
My website: janice-seagraves.org
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