Romance With a Twist

This post contains affiliate links. I’m an Author/Publisher at Jeweled Dagger Publishing. I love helping other authors and connecting with authors of all Genres. Maybe you do too. My main genre of writing is Romance but tell me about what you are writing and how we can help each other connect and reach out. IContinue reading “Romance With a Twist”

Do A Little Good

This post contains affiliate links. It’s Christmas decorating weekend for us. Even though we don’t attend church any longer, we still love the message of hope, love, and redemption this season brings.  It’s also a season of Christmas movies. There are so many Christmas stories and songs with great messages that it’s hard to discoverContinue reading “Do A Little Good”

Lessons in What Makes a Good Story

This post contains affiliate links. “All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple – and complex – as that. That’s the pattern. That’s how we tell stories.” ~ John Yorke, Into the Woods:Continue reading “Lessons in What Makes a Good Story”

Stories are Better With a Bit of Mystery

This post contains affiliate links. I never really enjoyed writing as a kid. In school, it always felt like work. But after several post-college jobs required me to write, I (ironically) slowly grew to enjoy it. My first unpublished draft came about after doing a team-building exercise for my co-workers that involved writing a storyContinue reading “Stories are Better With a Bit of Mystery”