Today’s Featured Kindle Book on FKBT: Thieving Forest by Martha Conway 4.4 out of 5 stars! Thieving Forest
What are the Best Rules for Writing?
“Good stories have a quality of authorlessness. The better they are, the more authorless they seem. . . They give a sense of being out there, like facts.” (Janet Malcolm) I have this quotation in front of me on my writing desk, and every once in a while I read it and ponder once again…
Featured Title and Giveaway
So happy that today Free Kindle Books and Tips is featuring Thieving Forest! I’m also hosting a year-end giveaway. I’ll pick five winners for either a paperback or audiobook version of Thieving Forest on December 15th. [contact-form-7 id=”533″ title=”Contact form 1″] Martha Conway’s new novel, Thieving Forest, won the North American Book Award in…
Audiobook Prize Raffle
MY TEENAGE SON RECENTLY discovered audiobooks. An avid reader until high school, he all but stopped reading because he “couldn’t find any books he liked.” Sound familiar? Maybe he read so much for his classes that his reading capacity was tapped out, or maybe it was a developmental issue. However — although I didn’t say…
Daydreaming Your Novel
A PARENT IN MY child’s school recently forwarded me an 11-minute video about skills we’ll need for the 21st century. What really stuck with me was the bit about creativity: “Most creative thoughts happen when your mind is left to wander: daydreaming; doing the dishes; exercising.” This rang true for me. My last novel, Thieving Forest, had…