A Southern Season: Four Stories from a front porch swing

Four seasons. Four stories. Each one set in the enchanting world of the South. These are the kinds of stories your grandmother told you from a front porch swing.

Ice Melts in Spring by Linda W. Yezak

Lillie Beth in Summer by Eva Marie Everson
Through an Autumn Window by Claire Fullerton
A Magnolia Blooms in Winter, by Ane Mulligan

A MAGNOLIA BLOOMS IN WINTER

With Broadway stardom within her reach, Morgan James returns home in winter to help an old friend. Maybe it’s just nostalgia, but when she sees him again, an old flame rekindles. When she’s called back to NYC to take the lead in a new musical, will fame be worth losing the man she loves?

Available on Amazon

When the Bough Breaks

Her dream job has a Catch 22—and time's running out.

Rookie lobbyist Sienna O'Shea is determined to make a name for herself in New York's capitol city and use that influence to gain easier access to her past. But when she's handed her first assignment her worlds collide.

Swept up into the intrigue of backroom politics, falling in love was not on Sienna's agenda, but the candidate for Lt. Governor runs a formidable campaign to make her his first lady. When an investigative reporter discovers foreign money infiltrating political campaigns, the trail leads to Sienna's inner circle.

Available in 2 formats:

http://amzn.to/2kE7cnC (Kindle)

https://amzn.to/2ICDmgo (paperback)

WRITING FROM THE TRENCHES

Why another book on writing? What makes this one special?

This awesome book will not just give you ONE perspective on the writing world. It will give you several. Each author has chosen the topics on which they excel. This way, you hear from the experts on that particular skill. Additionally, some topics (i.e., plotting, publishing, and marketing) will be discussed from several points of view. That way you can choose the ideas and styles (or a combination of several) that best suit you.

This book is due out by early Fall 2018.

Here are some of the things we’ll cover and the authors who will teach them:

· The different types of plotting techniques - Ane Mulligan, Connie Almony, Erica Vetsch, Michelle Griep, Louise M. Gouge, Lynnette Bonner, Julie Lessman, MaryLu Tyndall, Hallee Bridgeman, and Elizabeth Ludwig

· Transporting a reader into the past - Erica Vetsch

· Planning a research trip - Michelle Griep

· General research techniques - Erica Vetsch

· Developing characters - Hallee Bridgeman

· Writing Colorful Characters - Connie Almony

· Villains we love to hate - Elizabeth Ludwig

· Dynamic Dialogue - Ane Mulligan

· Ramping up the Sigh Factor in our Heroes - Julie Lessman

· The Right Woman for the Romance Job - Connie Almony

· The Tease: Scene/Chapter Endings to Lead Your Readers On - Julie Lessman

· Hook your reader in the first chapter - MaryLu Tyndall

· Making your readers cry - Michelle Griep

· Beyond Descriptions - creating a movie set - MaryLu Tyndall

· Whose POV is it, Anyway? Learning How to Write Deep - Lynnette Bonner

· Copyediting your manuscript: Can you really do it all yourself? - Louise M. Gouge

· Indie publishing vs. Traditional publishing, which way should you go?- Louise M. Gouge, MaryLu Tyndall, and Julie Lessman

· Marketing for those who hate Marketing - Erica Vetsch, MaryLu Tyndall, Michelle Griep, Connie Almony, Louise M. Gouge, Ane Mulligan, Hallee Bridgeman, Julie Lessman, Lynnette Bonner, and Elizabeth Ludwig

The authors in alphabetical order:

Connie Almony, www.ConnieAlmony.com

Lynnette Bonner, www.lynnettebonner.com

Hallee Bridgeman, http://www.halleebridgeman.com/

Michelle Griep, michellegriep.com

Louise M. Gouge, LouiseMGougeAuthor.blogspot.com

Julie Lessman, www.julielessman.com

Elizabeth Ludwig, http://www.elizabethludwig.com/

Ane Mulligan, www.anemulligan.com

MaryLu Tyndall, www.marylutyndall.com

Erica Vetsch, www.ericavetsch.com