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Saturday, June 2, 2023 CGI by Teagan Welcome back to our weekend sanctuary in the weirdly magical town of Atonement, Tennessee.  The residents of this town are just like everyone else— Well, that’s way off.  Some of them are like everyone else, but others…  Anyhow, now and then, they…

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on Fiction University: A strong character arc will weave its way through the turning points of the plot. A character arc is the internal struggle and progress a character goes through over the course of a novel that changes them in some way. It’s usually…

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on Helping Writers become Authors: Complex characters are the beating heart of good fiction. The simplest and most effective ways to engineer this complexity is to create contrast, and one of the most intuitive tools a writer can use for identifying which contrasting elements are…

Fleeing the French invasion of Geneva Switzerland in the 1700s, Adam Gold books passage to America with his family. On the ship, Adam’s daughter falls fatally ill. A mysterious man comes to Adam with a way to save his child by turning Adam into something darker than human. A. J. Captivating Vampires The imagery in…

For the last five years, Heath Mitchell’s only priority has been running a successful tattoo shop. Relationships haven’t been on his radar, but as his thirtieth birthday gets closer, Heath realizes just how lonely he is. Like an answer to his prayers, Ned Nice comes into his shop. Despite the?instant?attraction between them, a dark secret…

Mariah Hollander was the last to know that Dr. Marcus Alexander and Marcus Cannon, was the same man. Marcus Cannon was rich, handsome, and exceedingly stubborn… and convinced himself that marriage and children were not for him.Dr. Marcus Alexander was Calabasas Memorial Hospital’s Chief Pediatrician and head of Pediatrics at The Harvey-Reed-Cannon Medical Group.Marcus first…

Since her husband’s death, Tricia Adams had been fighting to keep a roof over their heads. With the help of the Grandmothers’s Four, she’d finally gotten everything under control. She was happier and more comfortable than she’d been in years. When Carol’s son, Eric Elliott, agreed to help renovate the guest house, she soon learned she was missing something…

No one ever told Hope why they decided to give her this name. She never thought to ask. Her dad had died two years ago, and her mom had not been the same since. Hope didn’t understand why her mom slept all the time. She wished her mom could be like she used to be,…

November 12, 2052: Earth has lost two-thirds of its population to the Great War, earthquakes, the Clover Virus, and the Death Plague. Years later, survivors are clumped into factions. Two factions, the Brotherhood, and the Guild Faction have battled over medical supplies and food for years. The fight has come to a head as manpower…