When Nina's boss is murdered while she's on the way to bring him $10K from a guy she met in a bar, she finds herself in the midst of a murder investigation. Being an office temp between shows doesn't clear her from suspicion. It doesn't help that her boyfriend, Jake, tried to roll her for the money right outside the bar, and now she's looking over her shoulder for him, too. Between the sexy detective on the case and the hot med student in the apartment next door, can Nina uncover old secre...

Got too much story for one book? Or a character with whom you want to explore life over multiple books? Learn how to figure out an engaging character that will keep your audience coming back. Build the character's world, supporting cast, and long and short arcs. Learn about spin-offs and tie-ins.

Fictional worlds, even based on real locations, require consistency. Writing a series involves multiple drafts and changing ideas. A Series Bible will help you keep details straight, allowing you to keep your flow of character quirks and setting details that your readers will always catch. Topics, exercises, and resources included.Based on Devon Ellington's popular seminar. Important Note: This Series Bible is for prose: novels, novellas, novelettes, linked short stories. It is NOT...

This Topic Workbook, based on Devon Ellington's popular seminar, takes the writer step-by-step through creating and maintaining an organized submission system. Too many writers miss opportunities because it takes too long to pull together all the parts! Don't be one of them! Learn how to efficiently create submission logs, query letter templates, bio paragraphs, clip files, resumes, portfolios, media kits, and more for a more organized, more productive writing life. Updated to include more...

This Topic Workbook will help you create exciting antagonists that truly challenge the protagonists in your work, creating interesting, exciting, complex characters. Learn how to create the antagonist's circle and develop the antagonist as a fully-developed individual, not an idea or a cipher. Combination of topics, exercises, and examples that you can re-visit with every story.

Unfinished projects drain creative energy. This Topic Workbook, based on Devon Ellington's popular workshop, takes you step-by-step through each unfinished project to decide if it's worth reviving, putting in stasis, or laying to rest, once and for all. Complete strong work, solve problems that got you stuck in the first place to turn it into something workable, and let go of projects that have outlived their purpose. Learn how to work revived projects into the schedule, and how to revisit...

Kick-start your creativity with short stories, found inspirations, sensory detail, and rituals. Includes updated versions of 5 in 10, Sensory Perceptions, Writing Rituals, the Infamous Tip Sheets, and more. Some days we feel about as creative as wilted lettuce. When that's the case, turn to Creative Stimulus and work your way through the various exercises. The shorter form of the exercise will help boost your creativity in long work and refresh your creative experience. Learn to go deeper ...

Learn how to analyze your blocks of time and manage them wisely to get your writing done while still having a quality of life. Corral fresh ideas, so they don't derail works already in progress. Topics, exercises, and resources, based on Devon Ellington's popular workshops.

Lesley Chase fought her way free from an abusive marriage, thanks to Coventina Circle. After her ex-husband's murder, she took a sabbatical to study yoga, meditation, and dreamwalking in Costa Rica. A passionate affair with Sam Pierce helped her self-confidence and healing, but she insisted they break all contact when she returned to New York. She's stunned when she runs into Sam, who has an office in the same building as her therapist. He convinces her it's just a weird coincidence, and h...

Bonnie Chencko knows books change lives. But she never expected her life to change because she happened to duck into a small bookshop in Greenwich Village on a rainy late November night. She's attracted to Rufus Van Dijk, the mysterious man who owns the bookshop in his ancestors' building. A building filled with family ghosts, who are mysteriously disappearing. It's up to Bonnie and her burgeoning Craft powers to rescue the spirits before their souls are lost forever.

When a dark, mysterious stranger arrives on Edwina's snowy doorstep on Christmas Eve, is he the answer to saving her beloved family home, or another threat?Edwina Lockesley is desperate to save her family home from a conniving neighbor who claims the house --and her -- in payment for a debt. When Theobold Vertingras shows up on the doorstep in a Christmas Eve blizzard, will he help Edwina coax the hall's ghost to give up her secrets in order to save the manor? Or is Theobold there ...

Nina's back, in a collection of two novelettes and a novella, built around the holidays."Too Much Mistletoe" – When a college friend vanishes, Nina and her former roommates work to put together the pieces. Did her married lover kill her to protect himself? Or did she flee with the work she did for which he plans to take credit? A date set up by one roommate with a handsome, interesting guy starts off promising, until he admits he has a girlfriend. And then there's Zack, the guy she...