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...

Nina's thrilled to be working on an off-Broadway show without a day job as an office temp. In between boyfriends, she's a little jealous of Zack's busy love life, although she still pines for med student Matt, and now the sexy firefighter Sebastian who lives across the street. When an actor disappears, and then a critic is murdered and left in Nina's theatre, staying ahead of the police on the case means staying ahead of the killer, necessary to save her own life.

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.

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...

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.

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 ...

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...

A snowstorm cuts off a small New England diner, stranding the eclectic group of patrons and their pets on Christmas Eve, serenaded by a local radio host. Callie, the diner's owner, is determined to make it a warm and unforgettable holiday, even as some darker shadows threaten to challenge their safety.

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 man is hanged from the oak tree in a Redcoat uniform at an historic house just before the Independence Day program, Glenda is determined to both solve the murder and protect the newly-opened museum. What she finds is much darker — and more personal — than she bargained.

Amanda Breck's complicated life gets more convoluted when she finds the body of Lena Morgan in Central Park, identical to Amanda's dream. Detective Phineas Regan is one case away from retirement; the last thing he needs is a murder case tinged by the occult. The seeds of their attraction were planted months ago, when Phineas investigated an attack on Amanda's friend Morag. Now, fate is determined to draw them close. But can they work together to stop a wily, vicious killer, or will the mur...

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...