Author: Tara Maya
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June Theme: Fantasy Romance
Upcoming Blog Candy Over the next year, I plan to kick up the voltage at the blog. I’ll be cooking up lots of candy posts for readers and writers. Whether you’re just browsing for your next fave read or whether you’re struggling to write someone’s fave read, I hope you’ll find some gems here in…
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How to Write Riveting Captivity Scenes (Guest Post by Rayne Hall)
WRITING CRAFT: CAPTIVITY SCENES by Rayne Hall If you’re writing a novel, is there a scene where the heroine is imprisoned or locked up against her will? Here are some techniques to make this scene powerful. If possible, make the room dark or semi-dark. Perhaps she’s locked up in a lightless cellar, in a dungeon…
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Tara Maya’s Writing Update
About a third of the work on a novel takes place before a single chapter is written. Another third happens after the draft is complete. At any one time, I usually have more than one novel (and more than one series) in progress at the same time, but in different stages of development. I have…
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Writing a Series With A Strong Middle…An Update
After I finished Blood, Book 6 of The Unfinished Song, I realized I’d hit the half-way point of the series. Not coincidentally, I began obsessing about how to write solid “middles.” First I looked at three problems that commonly sag or even sink a series in the middle books. I wrote: “My goal is to make every book…
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How to Keep Readers Updated?
I’ve been struggling with something. How can I keep readers updated about what I’m doing? The answer used to be easy: blog. I used to blog fairly regularly about my writing process and progress. Of course, that was before I had any readers. And that’s the problem. Once I became conscious—or rather, self-conscious—about pleasing my…
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Guardians: The Girl by Lola StVil
Guardians: The Girl by Lola StVil is the first book in The Guardians Series. I crave him. I need him. I love him. And that is the reason we will all die… Emmy Baxter wishes for a more interesting, exciting life. Until her world is turned upside down with danger, drama and thrown into a…
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Spark (Legends of the Shifters) by J.B. North
Spark by J.B. North, is the first book in the Legends of the Shifters series. For more than a decade, Ivy Oliver has lived in a dark, crumbling orphanage where she was sent after her parents’ death. Her only hope for a life of simplicity and happiness is the trial, a test that frees her…
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The Sorcery Code by Dima Zales and Anna Zaires
The Sorcery Code by Dima Zales and Anna Zaires is a captivating tale of intrigue, love, and danger in a world where sorcery is entwined with science . . . Once a member of the Sorcerer Council-now an outcast, Blaise has spent the last year of his life working on a magical object to allow anyone to do magic,…
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Aranya by Marc Secchia
Aranya by Marc Secchia is the first book in the Shapeshifter Dragons series. You can download Aranya for only $.99 beginning August 30 for 4 days only from Amazon and AmazonUK Chained to a rock and tossed off a cliff by her boyfriend, Aranya is executed for high treason against the Sylakian Empire. Falling a league into the…