Tag Archives | adult fiction

Setting Writing Goals

Every author has a differing and uniquely personal approach to writing. But authors share one process in common—setting and achieving word count goals. Your writing goals are everything. It’s how you get the ideas out of your head and on to the page. But it’s not just about word count. Writing goals include pages completed, […]

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Writer’s Corner: What The Heck Is High-Concept Fiction?

Unless you read Publisher’s Weekly on a regular basis or you’re in the publishing and literary world, you know that there are new phrases and terms that evolve as the industry evolves. These new concepts help agents, publishers, and authors speak distinctively about voices and projects, and it helps narrow the market so ultimately, readers […]

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The Books That Started It All

You know those books you remember fondly. The ones that you may read repeatedly, or that you remember from your youth. The books which inspired you to become a reader, a writer, a librarian, a publisher, an agent, or an author? Yeah, those. We all have them. For me, several books inspired me to become […]

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Writer’s Corner: 6 Helpful Tips for Creating Goal, Motivation, & Conflict

Your protagonist wants something, for a compelling reason, and needs to break through all barriers to get it.  Ah, the ol’ GMC. For some, it’s a struggle, for others, it’s a breeze. While I’m no expert, I’ve gathered pearls of wisdom on the subject and plan to share more as I continue my learning journey. But one […]

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The Good Client

This is book one in the Mitch Turner legal thriller series by Dan Decker. I’m amid reading them all because, if you’re like me, you love a good series and a great protagonist. Against his better judgement, defense attorney Mitch Turner agrees to defend his law clerk Timothy Cooper when accused of murdering his estranged […]

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The Girl Who Lived

When Faith is released from the psychiatric hospital, she struggles to regain her footing. Despite the fact that her mother has established for her a daily routine, an apartment and scheduled several support groups to keep her focused, she can’t cope with reality. As the guilt-ridden survivor of a horrific crime in which a ‘rat-faced […]

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Unsympathetic Victims

Officer Katie Mickey is charged with protecting her arch enemy, defense attorney Ashley Montgomery, who’s life has been threatened after she’s defended a local pedophile, Victor Petrovsky, and won his release. Katie just can’t see past the fact that Ashley would willingly choose to defend such scum. Though it’s Ashley’s job and she’s not sympathetic […]

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Legacy

The story is primarily about a young girl, Adrian, who’s raised by a mogul and taught to be a superstar. After surviving the abuses of her ex-husband which culminated in a life-threatening attack resulting in his death, her mother Lina becomes ruthless in her pursuit of success. The horrific incident, that Adrian witnessed as a […]

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