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Murder, mystery and Crunch Bars: Stacy Juba’s #recipe for a cracking New Year’s Eve

If you celebrate Christmas, I hope it was a happy one, bringing you good times with family and friends. For many people, Christmas isn’t always “the most wonderful time of the year,” despite what the song says, but the New Year is almost on us and January 1st is a time to look forward with…… Continue reading Murder, mystery and Crunch Bars: Stacy Juba’s #recipe for a cracking New Year’s Eve

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Recipe for Hello Dolly Squares (great name!) from Mystery/Thriller Author BV Lawson @bvlawson #BakeLoveWrite

Author, journalist, poet and blogger BV Lawson is one of the authors featured in our dessert recipe book Bake, Love, Write : 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing. This is my very last recipe post before Christmas…and it’s a cracker! (Sorry, couldn’t resist the Christmas cracker jokes :) ) Thanks…… Continue reading Recipe for Hello Dolly Squares (great name!) from Mystery/Thriller Author BV Lawson @bvlawson #BakeLoveWrite

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Good to meet you…author Margaret Mendel

This time last year I travelled to New York with my niece, to support her in the NY Marathon.  We arrived in the middle of a blackout, in the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  The marathon was cancelled, and my niece was very disappointed.  (That’s an example of British understatement :) )  But despite everything,…… Continue reading Good to meet you…author Margaret Mendel

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How to write multiple storylines

How do you write a novel with multiple story lines?  Today author Chuck Bowie is here with a guest post on how to knit separate story lines into a cohesive whole, without disrupting the flow of each narrative, and at the same time intensifying the themes of your novel. Carrying Multiple Arcs Across a Novel…… Continue reading How to write multiple storylines