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The Write Quotes: Storytelling, Inspiration, & Research

By: Landis Wade

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The Write Quotes: Storytelling, Inspiration, & Research

By: Landis Wade

These inspirational and practical quotes come from 500+ podcast interviews with hard-working, award-winning, and New York Times bestselling authors in more than 33 U.S. states and five countries. In Book 4, authors share their honest reflections on Storytelling, Inspiration, & Research. These quotes reveal how writers tell stories, what inspires them, and how and why research is important to their processes. Authors quoted include David Baldacci, Steve Berry, Lisa Jewell, John Hart, Sophie Cousens, Ron Rash, C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, Wylie Cash, Brad Taylor, Charlie Lovett, Judy Goldman, Chris Fabry, Amber Smith, Tracy Clark, John Gilstrap, Kimmery Martin, A.J. Hartley, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Jason Mott, Mark de Castrique, Cathy Pickens, David Joy, Gavin Edwards, and many more. These writers offer insights with humility and responsibility to the craft of storytelling, and in the process, they share gems to guide us along the writing way. Award-winning author Aaron Gwyn says, “There are no stories where characters are just sitting in the recliner.” And Cliff Yeargin, a writer who puts humor in his mysteries, tells us about the essence of storytelling: “Nobody has ever picked up a book and told their friend, on page 271 is one of the greatest sentences I've ever read. They just say, hey, check this book out. It's one dang good story.” But writers often have difficulty explaining where or how their ideas originate. As New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash says, “I don't know where stories come from. I'm kind of a Jungian. I just think they're kind of out there. And it's not so much that we create them as we discover them.” And when it comes down to it, Nancy Stancill, an award-winning investigative reporter, says, “You're going to need research for most novels because even though novels are made up, there's usually a lot of underpinning of something that really happened.”

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Charlotte Readers Podcast, LLC

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9798987695630

The Write Quotes: Writing Community, Revision, & Editors

By: Landis Wade

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The Write Quotes: Writing Community, Revision, & Editors

By: Landis Wade

These inspirational and practical quotes come from 500+ podcast interviews with hard-working, award-winning, and New York Times bestselling authors in more than 33 U.S. states and five countries. In Book 6, authors share their honest reflections on Writing Community, Revision, & Editors. These quotes reveal why writing communities are so important and how writers can get engaged, along with tips for revision and working with editors. Authors quoted include David Baldacci, Therese Anne Fowler, Steve Berry, Lisa Jewell, Ron Rash, Craig Johnson, Wylie Cash, Kristy Harvey, Brad Taylor, Charlie Lovett, Judy Goldman, Chris Fabry, Amber Smith, Tracy Clark, John Gilstrap, Kimmery Martin, A.J. Hartley, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Mark de Castrique, Cathy Pickens, and many more. Writing communities are where authors learn, grow, and support one another. As author Steven Grossman quips, “If I knew it was so much fun being friends with writers, I wouldn't have bothered with people that aren’t.” And as Ed Southern, author and Executive Director of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, says, “The literary community includes anyone who is involved with the written word, in one way or another,” and “You want community to be a place where people feel welcomed, and even nurtured, as opposed to a place where they feel put down or excluded.” And every author explains–in their own way–that revision is essential to the writing process. New York Times bestselling novelist David Baldacci says, “Self-editing continues to this day. Not every word that I write is going to be set in stone. Some days, I'm better than other days, and some days require more editing when I go back and look at what I've written. And sometimes I just delete it all and start again. That's just the nature of the beast.” And then there are the editors. As author Kevin Winchester tells us with a smile, “Editors, it's a love-hate relationship.” But editors are critical to the writing process, as these writers tell us. This book finishes with a section on mistakes, because they happen. But as award-winning author Cathey Pickens says, “If we're not making mistakes, and things aren't working, we just aren't trying anything new.”

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Charlotte Readers Podcast, LLC

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9798987695654

Heartbreak Hotel

By: Jill Marie Landis

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Heartbreak Hotel

By: Jill Marie Landis

Return to Twilight Cove for a tender and suspenseful story of families lost and found, of unexpected love, and second chances. Betrayed and broke, but not broken ... Tracy Potter lived a perfect life, created a loving home for her family, but her husband's sudden death reveals her perfect life has been a lie--from the marriage vows to their wealth. Determined to remake her life on her own terms, Tracy focuses on resurrecting the Heartbreak Hotel--a long-abandoned turn-of-the-century inn overlooking the Pacific Ocean. But her vow to trust only herself is tested the night mysterious loner Wade MacAllister checks in. The little known Heartbreak Hotel is the perfect place for Wade to disappear from the world for a while, from his notoriety as an author, and from the shocking events of his past. But Tracy's struggle and determination all too quickly fire his desire and capture his imagination and emotions. What he feels for her is dragging his long dead writer's muse out of hiding and forcing him to risk the anonymity on which his survival depends. Will Wade's dark past destroy their chance to find love again? Author Bio: A seven-time Romance Writers of America finalist for the RITA Award, Jill Marie Landis also now writes The Tiki Goddess Mysteries (set on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, where she lives with her husband, actor Steve Landis.)

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Bell Bridge Books

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1611948703

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9781611948707

Artist of the Beautiful

By: J. D. Landis

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Artist of the Beautiful

By: J. D. Landis

In his critically acclaimed novel, "Longing, J. D. Landis explored the volatile nature of passion as he brought to life the extraordinary marriage of Robert and Clara Schumann. It was a fervent love story that unfolded against the lavish backdrop of the Romantic Age. Now Landis tells a haunting story set amid a sylvan cluster of towns, villages, and graveyards in New England-- nestled in a valley that would be purposely flooded in the late 1930s to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Communities would be destroyed, lives uprooted, connections to places of birth severed, and the dead would be exhumed and reburied. The fate of Swift River Valley holds a strange fascination for seventeen-year-old Sarianna Renway, a wayward student obsessed with the life and work of poet Emily Dickinson. Sarianna finds herself drawn to this little world whose end is predetermined and whose time is drawing near. In the small hamlet of Greenwich Village--abandoned, beautiful, doomed--Sarianna takes a job tutoring a minister's son. A man of deep faith, Jeremy Treat strives to instill hope into a town destined to be taken and lost forever. He vows to be the last one in the valley to ensure his remaining flock leaves safely. Eleven-year-old Jimmy, "the perfect representation of God on earth," is a curious and compassionate child prodigy. The matriarch of the household is twenty-six-year-old Una, a voluptuous eccentric who embraces scandal--and pines for the one true love who disappeared almost twelve years ago on the day she became Jeremy's wife. When the mysterious Ethan Vear resurfaces, none will emerge unchanged--especially Sarianna, who finds herself ensnared in a triangle of shifting identities and warringpassions. In lush, evocative prose, J. D. Landis takes these vivid characters--their secrets, their temptations, their desires--and creates a stunning New England gothic novel of sexual awakening, profound loss, and thwarted love. "From the Hardcover edition.

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0345450078

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9780345450074

But Why Don't We Go to War?

Finding Jesus' Path to Peace

By: Susan M. Landis

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But Why Don't We Go to War?

Finding Jesus' Path to Peace

By: Susan M. Landis

When parents do not believe in war, how do they teach their children this ethic when all around them war and violence are glorified in videos, movies, TV, toys, and books? Susan Mark Landis helps parents communicate with their elementary school-aged children Jesus' way of peace. Each session has dialogue about God and the Bible, stories about peacemakers, and ideas for parents.

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Herald Press (VA)

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0836136470

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9780836136470

Insiders' Guide to San Diego

By: Maribeth Mellin,Jane Onstott,Jacquelyn Landis

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Insiders' Guide to San Diego

By: Maribeth Mellin,Jane Onstott,Jacquelyn Landis

Terrific year-round weather, miles of ocean, and desert and mountains just a short drive away, make San Diego a visitor's--and resident's--paradise. Walk across the border to Tijuana, view the wildflowers in the Anza-Borrego Desert, check out the posh life in Palm Springs, and visit numerous wildlife attractions.

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Falcon Guides

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0762730099

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The Write Quotes: Writing Process & Tools

By: Landis Wade

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The Write Quotes: Writing Process & Tools

By: Landis Wade

These inspirational and practical quotes come from 500+ podcast interviews with hard-working, award-winning, and New York Times bestselling authors in more than 33 U.S. states and five countries. In Book 3, authors share their honest reflections on Writing Process & Tools. These quotes reveal answers to some of the most commonly asked questions of writers. Authors quoted include David Baldacci, Therese Anne Fowler, Steve Berry, Lisa Jewell, John Hart, Sophie Cousens, Craig Johnson, Wylie Cash, Kristy Harvey, Brad Taylor, Charlie Lovett, Judy Goldman, Chris Fabry, Amber Smith, Tracy Clark, John Gilstrap, Kimmery Martin, A.J. Hartley, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Mark de Castrique, Cathy Pickens, David Joy, Gavin Edwards, and many more. Where do you write? When do you write? Do you write every day? How many drafts do you write? Do you create an outline? Do you use an editor? Do you? Do you? Do you? Though the answers vary in these pages, there are common denominators. As author and writing instructor Maureen Ryan Griffin says, “We all start with a blank page.” And as David Baldacci puts it, “There’s no perfect place to write.” Writers make do with what they have to work with. Take author and columnist Scott Fowler, who has earned 18 national APSE writing awards. He says, “I don’t go off to the mountain to write. I just go upstairs.” Or, as professor, author, and editor Michele Berger says, “A long time ago I said to myself, I can write anytime, anywhere.” Humility seems to be helpful to getting it done. As New York Times bestselling novelist John Hart says, “If a writer becomes hubristic, or begins to take this for granted, or really just thinks he can roll out of bed and bang it out without a lot of effort, that's the first step on the road to destruction.”

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9798987695623

The Legally Binding Christmas

By: Landis Wade

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The Legally Binding Christmas

By: Landis Wade

Small town lawyer Thad Raker represents an eccentric client living in an old house with a Christmas secret. When the county moves to condemn the house, Raker takes the case. If he doesn’t win, Christmas won’t come for hundreds of thousands of children. Twirly Masters is an affable man who talks in circles and who believes that evil forces within Santa’s operation are up to no good in taking his property. He calls on Thad Raker to handle his case, as much to help Raker as to save his house, because life’s misfortunes have caused now widowed and single dad Raker to become a non-believer, a fact Twirly intends to change. When the county goes to court to take his new client’s property, Raker must battle conspiring adversaries, a cantankerous judge, a formidable female lawyer he cares for, and his own personal feelings and doubts. Can Raker save Christmas once more, and in the process, save himself? As the fate of Santa and his legion of helpers hangs in the balance, the courtroom battle comes down to where it is always won or lost – the human heart. –Mark de Castrique, award-winning author of the Sam Blackman and Buryin’ Barry mysteries If you don’t feel like watching It’s a Wonderful Life for a third time this holiday season, mix things up a bit and read this sweet Christmas story instead. –Mary Laura Philpott, author of the national bestseller, I Miss You When I Blink If you don’t believe in Santa when you start this book, you will when you finish. A perfect complement to The Christmas Heist, with just the right mix of suspense, humor, and magic. –Bud Schill, co-author of Not Exactly Rocket Scientists and Other Stories

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Lystra Books & Literary Services, LLC

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0997448466

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9780997448467

Book's by Landis Wade

The Write Quotes: Storytelling, Inspiration, & Research

The Write Quotes: Storytelling, Inspiration, & Research

The Write Quotes: Writing Community, Revision, & Editors

The Write Quotes: Writing Community, Revision, & Editors

Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel

Artist of the Beautiful

Artist of the Beautiful

But Why Don't We Go to War?

But Why Don't We Go to War?

Insiders' Guide to San Diego

Insiders' Guide to San Diego

The Write Quotes: Writing Process & Tools

The Write Quotes: Writing Process & Tools

The Legally Binding Christmas

The Legally Binding Christmas

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