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Daily Writing Festival Deadlines: Submit your novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry to the festival. Get performance video of your work.

2017 – Read the best of MYSTERY Novel Stories from around the world:

Browse through these best of stories in the MYSTERY genre and see where you can read the best of new novels from around the world.  MURDER-GO-ROUND, by Phillip E. Hardy THE BLOOD SPANGLED BANNER, by Barbara Schlichting THE SHAPE OF US, by Yvonne Rediger THE RISHIS BOOK OF SECRETS, by Robert Delgado STARFALL, by John… Continue reading 2017 – Read the best of MYSTERY Novel Stories from around the world:

2017 – Read the best of DRAMA Novel Stories from around the world:

Browse through these best of stories in the DRAMA genre and see where you can read the best of new novels from around the world.  LADY JOE, by Mark Saha KILLING IS A SIN, by Christopher J. Harvie THUNDERCLOUD, by Ronald Joseph Kule ARA, by Haidar Hashim IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, by Allyson… Continue reading 2017 – Read the best of DRAMA Novel Stories from around the world:

Prologue & Chapter 1 Reading of BODIE by Anne Sweazy Kulju

Performed by Val Cole Get to know the writer:  What is your short story about? A woman’s murder in the most violent town in our nation’s history…Bodie, California. What genres would you say this story is in? Western/Historical Fiction/Paranormal How would you describe this story in two words? Paranormal Western What movie have you seen… Continue reading Prologue & Chapter 1 Reading of BODIE by Anne Sweazy Kulju

Novel Transcript Reading: Courage the Mouse, by Cornelia Fick

  Performed by Laura Kyswaty  Get to know the writer: What is your story story about? Thank you for the opportunity to talk about myself J. This is actually a story about following your destiny. What genres would you say this story is in? It’s a children’s story for ages 7-11 How would you describe… Continue reading Novel Transcript Reading: Courage the Mouse, by Cornelia Fick

Short Story Reading: OFF THE HOOK, by Lionel Walfish

Money background

Performed by Laura Kyswaty  Get to know the writer: What is your story story about? Money can’t buy you everything. What genres would you say this story is in? An exotic tale. How would you describe this story in two words? Futile search What movie have you seen the most in your life? ‘Strangers On… Continue reading Short Story Reading: OFF THE HOOK, by Lionel Walfish

Short Story Reading: NOISES IN THE CEMETERY by Mari Tamez.

  Performed by Laura Kyswaty  Get to know the writer: What is your story story about? My story is about the spinetingling events that took place in a cemetery before the embalmment process was universally practiced. These events were witnessed by my grandfather, a gravedigger, during the Great Depression. What genres would you say this… Continue reading Short Story Reading: NOISES IN THE CEMETERY by Mari Tamez.

Chapter 1 Novel Reading: Briar Earth, by Paul Tapp

Performed by Val Cole Get to know the writer: What is your novel about? Reluctance, tradition and coincidence. They bring together as princess and escort, an opiniative ‘silly girl’ and a ‘handsome captain’, who fails his diplomatic mission to keep her silent on contentious matters at her fox-hunting debut. A puppy hound and a missing… Continue reading Chapter 1 Novel Reading: Briar Earth, by Paul Tapp

Short Story Reading: Give Me Truth or Give Me Silence, by Melissa R Mendelson

Performed by Laura Kyswaty  Get to know the writer: What is your short story about? Give Me Truth or Give Me Silence is a Dystopian short story, where individuals are forced to speak the truth, but like with any other society, there are those that still lie. But it might be the last lie that… Continue reading Short Story Reading: Give Me Truth or Give Me Silence, by Melissa R Mendelson

My Novel Writing Secret – Shhh Don’t Tell

Originally posted on Blissful Scribbles:
I have a secret, a big, fat, secret. It’s increased my daily word count by a third. Do you want to know what it is? Then read on… I stopped writing my novel weeks ago. What? How can you have an amazing word count and have stopped writing, you ask? Let…