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What do writers want from plot?
What do writers need from plot?
Are those questions the same? Not really. As wordsmiths, we writers know that want and need are two different words.
The want is a circumstance that we writers can control. We want plot specifics to help us craft story and exceed reader expectations.
The need is a circumstance of obligations from reader expectations of story. While readers may want the comfort of the genre elements...
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Jack Portman had never forgotten Filly Malvaise.Then she walked into his local pub and into the clutches of a loan shark.Can he rescue her before she falls victim to evil? The Lion's Den is a brief novella set in London of the early 1920s with the Bright Young Things. The returned soldiers of the Great War have settled uncomfortably into their lives. Although this story is not part of a series, Filly and Jack were originally introduced in the 2nd...
3) Amber Dreams
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A flurry of poison pen letters unsettle the passengers on the ship Nomadic. Even Isabella is not immune from the vicious invective.
Will Isabella discover the culprit before tragedy occurs?
"Amber Dreams" is the first short story in the collection Sailing with Mystery. The collection continues the mystery adventures of the artist Isabella Newcombe Tarrant, featured in the Into Death series. Her introduction is in the novel Digging into Death.
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When Murder Paints with BloodIsabella Newcombe Tarrant must finish her commission to paint a portrait before she can join her husband in India.She travels to Greavley Abbey School in the sleepy village of Upper Wellsford. There she meets the young photographer Flick Sherborne, and they become friends.Then murder intrudes.Isabella and Flick stumble upon the body George Webberly, a teacher at Greavley Abbey School. He's been bludgeoned to death.Why...
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Welcome to A Trio of Games, the collection of the first three books in M.A. Lee's Hearts in Hazard series of Regency mysteries and suspense ~ with a dash of romance. A Game of SecretsSmugglers, secrets and spies: Kate tries to hide in plain sight; Tony tries to catch a spy. First they fall in love, then they fall into trouble with smugglers. Will they survive?Kate Charteris never expects to become a damsel in distress. This army-brat orphan is no...
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Two wives haunt the castle. Will she be the third to die? Vivienne Northrup agreed to a marriage of convenience to reap the benefits of becoming the Countess of Sheldrake. While she explores the ruins of Sheldrake Castle, a falling stone dislodged from a tower nearly kills her. Only then does Vivienne discover that the earl's previous two wives died tragically. The first had jumped to her death from that very tower. Or had the woman been pushed? The...
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Arson uncovers a baffling murder from the past. Can love survive when past troubles rise up like a many-headed monster? When Agatha's lover abandoned her years ago, she poured herself into her family's property, Helmes Farm. The estate, though, is in financial trouble after mismanagement by three successive stewards. She needs someone honest to help. Jess Carter evaded arrest for smuggling. The smuggler's fence offers him a job at Helmes Farm. Yet...
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A flurry of poison pen letters unsettle the passengers on the ship Nomadic. Even Isabella is not immune from the vicious invective.
Will the culprit be discovered before dangerous secrets are revealed?
"Purple Poison" is the second short story in the collection Sailing with Mystery. The collection continues the mystery adventures of the artist Isabella Newcombe Tarrant, featured in the Into Death series. Her introduction is in the novel Digging...
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Disguised to Spy. A young constable tracks treacherous traitors. A spinster hopes to find a killer. Will murder destroy their chance for love? Conrad Hoppock left his village and the girl he secretly loved for a chance at a better livelihood. He joined the London constabulary and began working with the Bow Street Runners. Now he hunts the master spy stealing information for Bonapartist France. His search sends him undercover in a lawyer's office....
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Discovering Your Writing is the epic journey for writers. Designed for writers at any skill level, this compendium of the acclaimed series is resource-rich with writing craft information. Four sections give writers in-depth guidance. Discovering Your Plot covers six types of plot structure and the necessities of genre expectations. In its detailed examination of the major sections of a novel, it offers clues to pacing, tension and suspense, and sequencing...
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One traitor destroys loyalty. What will two traitors destroy?The British spy Simon Pargeter scouts the terrain for Wellington's army in French-controlled Spain. Miriella de Teba ye Olivita, the famed Doñabella, wants to give him aid, but a traitor lurks in her band of guerillas.Can Simon escape the French patrol hot on his trail? Can Miri hold her guerrillas together long enough to get the information Simon needs?Or will the traitors reap the reward...
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A baffling murder interrupts a charming romance in The Danger of Secrets. Maddy Whittaker pursues a flirtation with Gordon, Lord Musgrove, as a pleasant distraction from daily concerns. Then she encounters secrets of family, secrets of the heart, and secrets of blood and pain, all served up for Valentine's Day at a country manor in Regency England. Too bad for Maddy and Gordon that secrets can kill. More than charm will be needed for Maddy to overcome...
13) A Game of Spies
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Enter A Game of Spies, where the salons and soirées of Regency England are countered by spies and gambling. Josette Sourantine enjoys dancing, flirtations, and gambling on cards. The salons of Regency London offer everything she loves. A little dancing, a little flirtation with dangerous rakes, a little card-play with extra coins in the offing.A little unexpected spying. When Giles Hargreaves tempts her into a dalliance, Josette discovers he hunts...
14) Red Mask
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Isabella receives a disturbing letter-only for it to be stolen before she deciphers it.The letter claims that a spy is aboard the Garipoola, but is that the only person hiding their true identity and purpose on the passenger ship?. ~ . ~ . ~ .M.A. Lee is the multi-published author of over 15 historical mystery novels and two novellas. Her Into Death series, including Digging into Death, Christmas with Death, and Portrait with Death, features Isabella...
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Miscellany: separate writings on varied subjects collected in one volume.
What makes this miscellany of writer guidance so messy?
A scattering into the many areas of writing, original sketch to final draft, revision to publication
Writing professionally, both process and attitude
Ways to maintain productivity and keep the writing fresh
Tools that writers find helpful
References to help writers grow
Writing as a long-term career
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Three twisty mysteries are collected in A Trio of Hazards. Set in Regency England, these novels present people from the many spheres of life clashing against each other-and against murderers!
Complex Schemes, Dangerous Pasts :: The Hazard of Secrets
Clarey Parton crosses the Atlantic to steal an inheritance. She hopes that no one discovers the rightful heir lies in a cold grave.
Jem Baxter returns to the England he fled three years before. He assumes...
17) Black Heart
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Pranks and tricks cause inconvenience, misery, and embarrassment.
After one prank goes too far and injury occurs, will Isabella locate the trickster before the next mishap turns deadly?
"Black Heart" is the third short story in the collection Sailing with Mystery. The collection continues the mystery adventures of the artist Isabella Newcombe Tarrant, featured in the Into Death series. Her introduction is in the novel Digging into Death.
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Has the love of her life enticed her straight into death? Stranded on Crete, Isabella Newcombe finesses a refuge with English archaeologists resuming their dig after WWI. Her sketches fortuitously land her a job illustrating the dig for Prof. Gawen Tarrant. His magnetic brother Madoc charms her with his interest. The dig seethes with undercurrents, revealed when a worker is murdered. The archaeologists dismiss his death as a village vendetta. Then...
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"Silver Web"Lady Bernhardt's diamond necklace is stolen. Other jewelry is missing. Suspicions and accusations fly among the passengers of the ship Garipoola.Then the thief dies in a freak accident, proof of his theft in hand. Will Isabella locate his accomplice and the missing jewelry before they reach the next port?"Silver Web" is the fourth short story in the collection Sailing with Mystery. The collection continues the mystery adventures of the...
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In the forests of words that we writers grow, blazed trails mark the way to our destination. Without those trails, without paths leading down to sun-sparkled streams, without the yellow brushstroke painted on tree after tree, we might lose our direction and our sanity. Reading through that opening paragraph, most writers will recognize the extended hiking metaphor. Many will spot inversion and alliteration. A few will appreciate the anaphora and auxesis...