You Have the PowerSelf-edit Your Way Into PrintCindy Davis shares her years of editing experience. Her guidelines give you the power to edit and polish your own writing.Cindy will teach you many editing strategiesLearn how to decipher overwriting, how to make dialect more readable. Learn to remove the overuse of adverbs and pronouns.Learn how to make your opening sentence stand out.Cindy is a 20+year professional editorCindy is best known for her murder mysteries and romantic suspense, many of which were set in her home state of New Hampshire. And have achieved considerable success. Now, a transplant to Florida, Cindy has found herself changing not only place of origin but also genre since her latest work is a New Age fiction penned with her husband RickShe is an award winning freelance editor who's worked in both fiction and nonfiction with over a thousand authors.www.cdavisnh.comwww.fiction-doctor.com Now go back up to the top and purchase this book
There has been a murder on Lake Winnipesaukee.The fishing charter boat carried seven people--six people and the murdered boat captain. Angie Deacon was the last to see Nolan Little alive. Which makes her a prime suspect in his death. Sure, he was gruff and insensitive. Treated his wife like dirt. But besides Valerie, why would any of the five strangers on board want him dead? None of them knew him before today. Or did they? Police detective Colby Jarvis storms the boat determined to unveil the killer before they get back to shore. What a feather in the widower's cap that would be. He falls hook, line, and sinker at his first sight of Angie, but she is married and off limits. He sets to work piecing together the information from the afternoon spent fishing on the lake. * Angie was seen having an altercation with Mr. Little earlier that day. * But so did handsome Jamaican Montez Clarke, who by day is a computer geek. He even went so far as to pop Nolan in the nose. * Why did Sonny Phelps bring two duffel bags aboard? They don't appear to contain fishing gear. They're there, and then they are gone... And Sonny won't talk about them, nor will he explain about his partnership with Montez. * And what about the pretty boy Tyson Goodwell, born into wealth and privilege... He just showed up as the boat was pulling away from the dock? Why? * As for Angie's husband Will...all Jarvis can come up with is philandering. Bad enough but it doesn't make him a murderer. Valerie begs Angie to help find the killer before they lock her up forever. Angie is an ER nurse; she has no aspirations toward becoming a woman sleuth. But if she refuses, Val threatens to ask Sonny and Montez, which could land her in even deeper trouble. Under pressure, Angie agrees. Once she learns the woman's dark secret, will Angie regret her decision to jump into the role of female detective? As in all murder investigations, untruths aren't the only cause for alarm as the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, leaving Angie wondering just exactly how her cheating husband fit into the deadly equation...and if she is next on the killer's list. Get your copy today.
Coming to Terms: The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship, an edited collection from Jane Blankenship and Janette Kenner Muir, is the story of one academic journey through self-discovery, intellectual development, and mentorship. It is a conversation that illustrates how, in Mary Catherine Bateson’s terms, one composes a life that has meaning and makes a significant difference in other lives as well. Jane Blankenship was an active member of the speech communication discipline, starting with her first job teaching in the Rhetoric and Composition program at Mount Holyoke College and finishing with the great distinction of Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. As a noted rhetorical scholar in both criticism and theory, Jane Blankenship was a long-time leader within the National Communication Association (including one of a handful of women who served as president in the 20th Century), and an award winner of numerous teaching and scholarship awards. Throughout her academic career, Blankenship made important contributions to the understanding of language and form, specific literary critics such as Kenneth Burke and Samuel Coleridge, and the role of women in politics. Most importantly, she worked with and inspired a cadre of graduate students who continue to reflect her ideas and perspectives in their own work, particularly in the area of political communication. Through her writing and mentoring, she impacted and changed thousands of lives. Coming to Terms brings together some of the significant pieces that marked Jane Blankenship’s career and also shows the process wherein one makes choices in writing and publishing that underscore the interrelationship between scholarship and teaching—an important element throughout her academic life.
Can lyrics from Tom Chapin's songs help Joy solve the murder of her ex boyfriend, found in the debris of the Celtic Faire's opening-night bonfire? Joy is hauled back to Uncertain, Florida in a police car. Her boyfriend, with whom she broke up three months ago, has been found dead in the ashes of the Annual Celtic Faire's bonfire. She was miles away when he died. But a witness, someone she considered a friend, said she was in town. And no one can prove otherwise. Chief Wagner is being pressured from all sides to not only solve the murder, but also the rash of petty thefts that have hit the small town. Could they somehow be related? Joy thinks so, but the chief can't let go of the idea she's the killer. When the body is identified as one of the contestants in the competition, and not Joy's ex, things take on an entirely new perspective.
We're Doing What for Summer Vacation"? is a nonfiction story told by Ali, a typical nine-year-old American girl who spent the summer traveling on a budget across Borneo with her older brother and parents. Ali just wanted to be a normal kid with a normal family spending summer vacation at the beach in Florida. Unfortunately, she has former hippie parents that wanted a big summer adventure. This was not her idea of summer fun! On her adventure, she lived in a tree house, experienced bedbugs, learned a little about Muslim culture, ate strange food, went white-water rafting, got trapped in a stairwell alone and thought she was being kidnapped, trekked in the jungle, saw orangutans, experienced leeches, stayed with the locals in their houses, found real skulls from headhunters, discovered an island of lost children, and went scuba diving with turtles bigger than she was. This story is not your ordinary nonfiction story. It is a quirky journey about a typical girl experiencing a very untypical place.
When a popular eighteen-year-old girl is murdered, it devastates residents of the tight-knit communities surrounding New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee. But when the jury sets the accused man free, it shakes people to their very core. Detective Colby Jarvis blames himself-the witnesses were ineffective; his testimony was weak, the clues inadequate. The next morning, jigsaw puzzles begin arriving in mailboxes belonging to people related to the trial. Twelve hours later, the deaths begin, and Jarvis promises to bring the murderer to justice. Angie tries to help Jarvis through his troubles, but she's mired in her own set of problems. Her partner Tyson has just been offered his lifelong dream-a role in a Broadway show. Angie faces running the theater on her own, perhaps forever. But that's not the worst of it: her clingy mom is back in town, and she's brought her a boy-toy-a twenty-something surfer from LA-who decides that he too wants to be a detective.
A Picasso painting, worth a hundred million dollars, disappears en route from Chicago to New Hampshire. En route is to be taken literally because it happens while the truck is moving. The painting is there, then it's not. It's gone, but it can't be. Kendra Jean Valentine, underwriting agent for the policy, is on the hook.She scrapes together enough to hire two women to work the case. Two 'regular' women no self-respecting insurance agent would look twice at. Which is exactly why KJ thinks they're perfect. Westen Hughes owns a failing pet shop. With creditors phoning daily, she jumps at the chance to earn a bundle of easy money, even though the offer comes from high school nemesis KJ Valentine, who stole everything in high school: head cheerleader, homecoming queen and the star quarterback. KJ pairs her with Westen's total opposite. Phoebe Smith is a snake-loving, underwear-hating, tuba player with more baggage than Logan Airport. Ten percent of a hundred million is...Well, it's a lot so Smith and Westen join forces on a rollercoaster ride to find one of the world's most valuable paintings. MULTI PUBLISHED FLORIDA AUTHORCindy Davis is the author of 22 mysteries and romantic suspense novels, and several non-fiction books. She's a 20-year veteran free-lance editor, and a recent transplant to the land of sunshine where she can be outdoors twelve months of the year rather than the four or five in New England. Cindy and her new husband Rick do a lot of hiking and swimming. They like to travel--next on the bucket list is Italy. The last trip to Rome produced a novel Lethal Dose of Revenge (being marketed now) which made it TAX DEDUCTIBLE!Personally, she's addicted to coffee--particularly chocolate raspberry flavor. And don't anyone dare get between her and her life-loves: Ben & Jerry. Other than that, she's pretty laid back. Now go back up to the top and purchase this book
Angie Deacon always thought the gene that produced maternal instinct was missing from her DNA. Till she meets Kiana Smith: beautiful, personable, talented and...grieving, because her mentor, Gwen Forest, the drama teacher has been murdered. The principal of Carlson South High School begs Angie to come supervise a production scheduled for that weekend. The play, written by Kiana and her friend Evan, is being put on to raise money to save the floundering drama program at the school. Although her own community theater is in the midst of its next production, Angie agrees to help out. The trouble is, the principal has told everyone she's there to work on the case, and Angie is quickly buried in secrets and problems thrown at her from every angle. Since she and Detective Colby Jarvis' near-death experience in a recent case, she's sworn to leave investigating to the professionals. Unfortunately she can't convince the kids or the principal to stop bringing her clues.
Can a yellow throat toucan, and lyrics from Jim Croce's songs, help Joy solve the murder of one of Uncertain Florida's leading citizens? Joy and Diablo, the yellow throat toucan, return to the central Florida town of Uncertain to attend a friend's wedding, and soon Xander and Amanda are zipping off to their honeymoon in Alaska. Joy is delighted the annual chili cook-off is happening that weekend also. Second to pizza and peanut butter, chili's her all-time favorite-the spicier the better. Unfortunately, someone uses the hubbub of the cook-off crowd to poison Darcy, a popular hairdresser. What brought Darcy's long-lost sister back to town at this time? Who is the grey-haired attorney who's come all the way from LA? And why does Xander express an avid interest in poison? Joy's overwhelmed with suspects and problems, until suddenly Diablo's clues start making sense.
The first warning is swift and to the point, but bookstore owners Glenn and Lindsay Reade don't 'get it' until their lives are threatened a second time. All they've done is read a young girl's diary and attempt to locate the owner. Just because the journal describes the girl's rape and subsequent murder of the rapist is no reason for anyone to want them dead, is it? The book is obviously more than 40 years old. Who in the tiny Berkshire town of Paris, Massachusetts could still care? But someone does. And that someone is willing to kidnap and murder to protect thire long buried secret.
Can a yellow-throat toucan, and lyrics from Jimmy Buffett's songs help Joy solve a month-old murder? The central Florida town of Uncertain looms as a mere distraction for Joy Wagner when the new-to-her motorcycle breaks down under a banner publicizing the annual mud festival. Why would anyone celebrate mud? Sounds disgusting, but she's stuck here till her bike's fixed. In less than an hour, her luck changes. She's offered pizza-for-life and a job at Moore's General Store. The job comes with two perks: a yellow-throated toucan, which is odd enough, but add to that the ghost of Merrick Moore and life takes a vociferously strange turn. The fatherly man is friendly and much loved, and related to most everyone in town. Trouble is, he's been dead a month. Townspeople believe he died of natural causes but he insists he was murdered. Can Joy expose the killer before anyone finds out she's been getting clues from a ghost...and a toucan? More important, can she find the killer before the killer finds her?
Take $2 million in bank securities.Add a bank manager who moonlights as a magician. Blend well, then add: * A nagging shrew of a wife* A high-maintenance daughter in debt up to her ears* A TV talk show husband who foots too many of the family's bills* A down-to-earth daughter, seemingly baffled by them all* A theater producer who's never around when people need him. And it's clear, Gabe Heinz has two million reasons to disappear. He is in the middle of his vanishing act on stage when he does just that--vanish before a sell-out crowd--along with two million in securities from the bank where he's vice president. His daughter is distraught--and a prime suspect--not just by the FBI, but by her nagging shrew of a mother. Insurance recovery team Smith and Westen are up to their ears in movers determined to demolish every stick of furniture in their new home. It's almost a relief when a recovery job takes them to Los Angeles. Hunky bodyguard Ryan Ames is supposed to meet them at LAX. Instead, a gun-wielding lunkhead with a fondness for roughing up women escortsthem to a mobster who claims they now work for him. When they locate the securities--and they'd better, or else--can they keep them from the mobster? Get your copy today.
Who wants John Bloom, the owner of the local nursery, dead? Angie Deacon has a new career, co-owner of Alton Bay, New Hampshire's community theater. After her divorce life is good once again. Until opening night when the co-star-played by love interest Detective Colby Jarvis-shoots the star. Who substituted Jarvis' real gun for the prop gun? And why would anyone want the star dead? In his day job he owns the local nursery.
During Christmas break from Colorado College, Claudia Goodwin's father delivers the news: she's to marry David VanBuren so he can merge the two families' frozen food companies. Claudia's outright balking doesn't work, ignoring the edict doesn't work. When she finds herself pregnant by the one she truly loves, David's black-sheep brother Max, marrying David seems the only solution. She does her best to make things work but David seems determined to undermine their life together. Claudia manages to handle his demands and misogynistic attitudes...until he announces he and Max are buying a diamond mine-which means she and Max will be thrust together day after day. Will she be able to deny her love for him? What if he sees the birthmark on his son's arm and realizes the truth?
A local drama teacher is found dead with a makeup tube duct taped into her mouth.Everyone is devastated, especially Kiana Smith, co-author of the most recent production intended to raise money for the floundering drama program.Although her own community theater is in the midst of its next production, Angie Deacon agrees to help out. But the principal announces she
,b>A priceless Egyptian vase disappears in front of six witnesses. And, of course, the thief...It's there, then POOF, it's gone. Smith & Westen, New England's most mismatched investigative team is hot on the trail. The ink is barely dry on snake-lover Phoebe Smith and Susie Homemaker Westen Hughes' licenses. Their bank accounts are bursting from their previous windfall, yet they're anxious to get back to work. Then the call comes. During the unveiling of a local college's exhibit, the vase worth $1.75 million, disappeared in front of seven people. * Enrique Vargas's money is rumored to have come from smuggling artifacts. * Model-thin Fiona Frost is his paramour-de-month; the only job she ever had was as a prostitute. * Donald Abbott is a dealer in ancient weapons, particularly Egyptian ones.* The always-smiling Sophie Oliver has no visible means of support.* Dana Thornton is head of the exhibit's security, a job that could grow to include the whole campus if he plays his cards right. How did the theft happen right under his nose? Smith and Westen dodge threats and physical attacks by the suspects...More important, they need to stay one step ahead of insurance adjuster KJ Valentine, who's determined to find the vase and cash in on the 10% finders fee. Get your copy today.
Many people in my over-55 community are, to quote one of my neighbors, "Waiting to go."Actually, they called Florida "God's waiting room." What! Is that what really happens? I asked around and found out it was. After some thought, I realized I had been too. This book is about how my life changed when I learned to "live life consciously."Because, at the age of sixty-two, I learned I didn't need to lie down and wait for the end to come. It was my choice to go forward...or not. So, I went forward...and joined a dating site.And met someone who changed everything. Realize please, this isn't a dating book. It's how, through interactions with Rick, spiritual books, and journeys to places like Cassadaga, Florida, I learned about self-healing, and that I could literally change my thoughts, to be a more positive and empowering person. That with those changes, life took an entirely new path. How easily things come to you when you learn to let go.On our honeymoon, we visited Mexico's Yucatan villages. And learned that in another life, I just might have been a Mayan.
Who murdered a popular high school drama teacher?Angie Deacon always thought the gene that produced maternal instinct was missing from her DNA. Till she meets Kiana Smith: beautiful, personable, talented and...grieving, because her mentor, Gwen Forest, the drama teacher has been murdered.The principal of Carlson South High School begs Angie to come supervise a production scheduled for that weekend. The play, written by Kiana and her friend Evan, is a fundraising effort to save the school's floundering drama program. Although her own community theater is in the midst of its next production, Angie agrees to help out.The trouble is, the principal has told everyone she's there to work on the case, and Angie is quickly buried in secrets and problems thrown at her from every angle. Since she and Detective Colby Jarvis' near-death experience in a recent case, she's sworn to leave investigating to the professionals. Unfortunately she can't convince the kids or the principal to stop bringing her clues.
A terrible fire in Cattle Creek upsets Jesse-especially when his friend Joe is blamed for the tragedy... Condon's General Store is burning. Too late to save the building and the two people inside: the owner Joe and mean old Frank Howard. Afterward, Jesse learns of the money stolen from the store over the past weeks. Sheriff Benson is sure Joe set the fire to cover the theft. Jesse, Matt and LT set out to prove his innocence. Trouble is, several business owners have shiny new things-a hotel sign, a telegraph machine, a barber chair.
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