New Meetup: Murder Mystery Theater from SWAP October 28th

click thru for details Announcing a new Meetup! Just Us Sisters Together ( JUST ) Murder Mystery Theater Added by Norma When: Where: RSVP: Friday, October 28, 2011 6:00 PM Virgil H.Carr Cultural Arts Center 311 E. Grand River Detroit, MI 48226 Yes No Assemble your team and dust off those detective hats, a new Murder Mystery Theatre will be held on Oct. 28, 2011 at the Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center, located at 311 E. Grand River in Detroit! Tickets are $25 and are now available and must... Learn more More Meetups from this group Oct 22 5:00 PM Bowling Clover Lanes 28900 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia, MI 48150 RSVP → Nov 05 4:45 PM November Birthday Dinner Southern Fires 575 Bellevue, Detroit, MI 48207 We will be celebrating Eunice's birthday by paying for her dinner. www.southernfirerestuarant.com RSVP → Nov 12 6:00 AM DAWN SEEKERS EVENT No location yet Triumph Women's Ministry Presents DAWN SEEKERS EVENT This is a quarterly women's event designed to uplift, strengthen and encourage the women of our church and in our community. This is a wonderful event that you will find motivating. "I love the...… MORE RSVP → More Meetups: 7 upcoming Meetups Sponsors & Perks: NCM Enterprises · NCM Enterprises ·

How To Write Fight Scenes With Alan Baxter from @thecreativepenn

http://www.TheCreativePenn.com/fight/
Alan Baxter is a speculative fiction/ thriller writer who also has 25 years experience of martial arts as an instructor. He shares his tips on how to write great fight scenes including how the differences in training can affect a fight, gender differences, use of setting and much more. Alan is also the author of Write The Fight Right which you can buy online.

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Understand Your Book's Audience and Significance Before You Write

By Lisa Shultz 

For a book to be successful in sales, it is important to understand your target audience and what ultimate significance you are hoping to provide.

Let's begin with understanding your audience. Knowing your target readership will also help you with your marketing efforts later.

Answer the following questions to create an audience profile for your book:

Are your readers men, women or both?

How old are your readers?

How will they find out about your book and where will they buy it?

Will they prefer a paper version or an electronic version?

What price will they be willing to pay?

Are your readers internet savvy and likely to visit your website or will your book be a bookstore book or
other venue?

Is your audience business people or recreational readers and how will you reach them?

Does your target market attend events where you could establish a presence such as trade shows, conventions, festivals, expos, or niche stores?

Once you have gained perspective and understanding on who you are writing your book for, make sure your writing appeals to that audience.

After clarifying your readership, test the significance of the information you are writing. Is it useful? Does it solve a problem, alleviate a pain or answer a question? Will it have a positive effect on the lives of the readers?

If your book is fiction, does it keep the attention of the reader, provide insight, humor, or an escape?

How do you want your reader to feel while reading it, and how do you want them to feel when they read the final word?

Many books do not succeed in the way the author would have hoped. If the actual writing is sound with good editing and presentation, then it may be that time spent in refining its message to a specific group of people would give it a higher performance of sales. Having a niche and promoting to that niche is vital in the sales success of your book.

Having pride in your book and thinking that everyone will buy it and love it is not realistic. The more clarity you can gain with a narrow niche and then both write and market to that niche, the more successful your book will become.

Spend time in contemplation of the meaning of your book and what legacy it will leave to the world. Know your readership and write for them. Avoid over analysis that stalls your progress, but do write with purpose, clarity and a specific niche in mind.

And if you would like to know more about self-publishing process, visit http://www.selfpublishingexperts.com Get free instant access to tips, a free book visualization and more. You'll find that the writing process can be simplified and even easy with guidelines and sequential steps to follow. Lisa Shultz is a self-publishing specialist and loves to help others bring their books to life.

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Do You Have a Book In You-A Story to Tell? #literaryservice @enjoywrites

click thru for details Literary Consulting/Concierge   I receive anywhere from 3-5 emails or Facebook messages per day with people asking me information about where to start with writing a book, book publishing or if I'll read their work and provide them feedback.  With such a great need and demand out there, this has inspired me to bring back my services of Literary Consulting.   I am Joylynn M. Jossel writing under the name BLESSEDselling author, E. N. Joy.  I am the writer behind the five book series, "New Day Divas," coined the "Soap Opera in Print."  Formerly writing secular works under the names Joylynn M. Jossel and JOY, I am an award winning author that has been sharing my literary expertise on conference panels in my home town of Columbus, Ohio as well as cities across the country.    I started off self-publishing my own works in 1998 until I landed a book deal with a major publishing house.  In 2000 I incorporated my own publishing company, End of the Rainbow Projects.  Under my company I have not only self-published some of my own works, but I have also published New York Times Bestselling Authors and National Bestselling Authors in the "Sinners Series." In 2004, I branched off into the business of literary consulting where I provided one-on-one consultations and literary services such as ghost writing, editing, professional read-thrus, write behinds, etc…  My clients consisted of first time authors, Essence Magazine bestselling authors, New York Times bestselling authors, and entertainers.    Two of my secular titles, If I Ruled the World and Dollar Bill, made the Essence Magazine bestsellers list.  Dollar Bill appeared in Newsweek and has also been translated to Japanese.  An All Night Man, penned with New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Jackson, earned the Borders bestselling African American romance award.    In addition to writing Christian fiction, I write children's books under the name N. Joy.  My children's book, The Secret Olivia Told Me, received the American Library Association Coretta Scott King Honor.  Book club rights were acquired by Scholastic Books and the book is on tour at Scholastic Book Fairs in schools across the country.  The title has sold almost 100,000 copies and elementary and middle school children have fallen in love with reading and creative writing as a result of the readings and workshops I perform in schools nationwide.   Now, in 2011, I am upgrading two of my services; Literary Consulting and Professional Read-Thrus.  My literary consulting service is now Literary Concierge.  I take over 13 years of my wisdom, knowledge, expertise, research, hard work and experience in the literary industry and I assist aspiring authors or authors who just don't know what to do next to reach their dreams of becoming published.  I provide the steps, tips and personal suggestions of what it takes to get the manuscript out of your head and into print.  The steps you need to take to self-publish, seek publication through a major publishing house, query agents or information on ebook publishing.  For a monthly fee, I not only take the initiative to provide the information my clients will need, but I will also be available to my clients via email and phone with any questions they might have throughout the process.  There are no minimum or maximum months of service.  If after one month you have everything you need to know and can take it from there, the contract can be terminated.  If after a couple months of terminating the contract you realize you didn't know everything, you can reinstate the contract.   My professional read-thrus include my reading of your work to provide you my professional opinion, thoughts, notes, suggestions and comments on the content, plot, storyline, character development, etc…  This is not an editing service.  This is content feedback only.  Writers of all genres welcome.   Please contact me at joylynnjossel@aol.com for fees if you are interested Joylynn M. Jossel now writing as BLESSEDselling Author E. N. Joy Author of the "New Day Divas" series, coined The Soap Opera In Print ...Are You Keepin' Up With the Divas?... www.enjoywrites.com and www.joylynnjossel.com

ARTICLE: On the Edge of Your Seat – Creating Suspense - Sophie Masson

On the Edge of Your Seat – Creating Suspense

Sophie Masson

Suspense is what keeps a reader reading—wanting to know what happens. The suspense can be of all kinds, from wanting to know who the baddie is in a thriller to wanting to know whether the heroine is going to choose Mr A or Mr B as her love interest, to—well, just about anything, really! Creating and maintaning suspense is important in any kind of story or novel; it is especially so in the kinds of genres that are built around suspense: mysteries, thrillers, spy stories, fantasy. Here’s some of my tips, honed  over years of writing in many of those genres!

First of all, to create suspense you need:

Some background information.

But incomplete knowledge.

That is, from the beginning the author needs to already have something set up—to let the reader know something about a character and their situation, or the suspense won’t happen—you have to care what happens for suspense to occur in the reader’s mind.

read more : http://writerunboxed.com/2011/06/15/on-the-edge-of-your-seat-creating-suspense

Suspense. Where does it start?

Great post on Edit Torrent to discuss Suspense. Join us!


http://edittorrent.blogspot.com/2011/04/suspense-where-does-it-start.html

#Southfield Public #Library PR CSI Southfield #michigan

Phone 248.796.4362 Fax 248.796.4365  News Release Date: March 2, 2011 Contact: Community Outreach For Release: Immediate                         CSI:Southfield @ the Southfield Public Library   Southfield, MI – Come to the Southfield Public Library on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:00 pm in Meeting Room to meet a real life crime scene investigator from the Southfield Police Department.   For nearly a decade, the trendy network television drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has fascinated viewers with high-tech crime fighting tools and accomplished something many writers and authors have struggled to do – making science exciting! CSI Southfield will look through the lens of an experienced crime scene investigator and explore the relationship between real life forensic science and popular media's adaptation.   This program is presented in conjunction with Everyone's Reading The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly.  Find out more information about Everyone's Reading at www.everyonesreading.info.               Southfield Public Library is located in the Southfield Municipal Complex, 26300                                                     Evergreen Road.  Visit the Library's Home Page at www.southfieldlibrary.org. For            further information, please call the Guest Services Desk at 248.796.4224.   ### Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network & The African American Electronic Literary Network Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com --- On Wed, 3/2/11, Jane Sloan <jsloan@sfldlib.org> wrote: From: Jane Sloan <jsloan@sfldlib.org> Subject: Southfield Public Library PR CSI Southfield To: "Jane Sloan" <jsloan@sfldlib.org> Cc: "Jane Sloan" <jsloan@sfldlib.org> Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 1:17 PM                                                                                      Phone 248.796.4362 Fax 248.796.4365  News Release Date: March 2, 2011 Contact: Community Outreach For Release: Immediate                         CSI:Southfield @ the Southfield Public Library   Southfield, MI – Come to the Southfield Public Library on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:00 pm in Meeting Room to meet a real life crime scene investigator from the Southfield Police Department.   For nearly a decade, the trendy network television drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has fascinated viewers with high-tech crime fighting tools and accomplished something many writers and authors have struggled to do – making science exciting! CSI Southfield will look through the lens of an experienced crime scene investigator and explore the relationship between real life forensic science and popular media's adaptation.   This program is presented in conjunction with Everyone's Reading The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly.  Find out more information about Everyone's Reading at www.everyonesreading.info.               Southfield Public Library is located in the Southfield Municipal Complex, 26300                                                     Evergreen Road.  Visit the Library's Home Page at www.southfieldlibrary.org. For            further information, please call the Guest Services Desk at 248.796.4224.   ###