Mini Book Therapy!

My Book TherapyGet your Conference Proposal in Shape!

One Sheets, First chapter and Pitch…

You get one chance to wow them, to stir their hunger for your book, to see that sparkle in their eyes that tells you they see your story in print…is your conference submission ready?

We at My Book Therapy know how important that conference pitch is – we have sat at the other side of the editor or agent’s table, hands sweating, trying to throw the right amount of energy into our pitch.

And, we have sold those pitches.

Now we want to help you. From now until September, My Book Therapy is offering our summertime “Get in Shape for Conference” Mini Book Therapy fiction editing service, at less than half our usual rate - the hot low prize of $135.

We’ll help your tune up that first chapter, create a powerful one-sheet and hone your pitch so when you walk into that air-conditioned room at your writer’s conference, you don’t freeze on the spot. Instead, you’ll have a sizzling hot best-seller, just waiting to be discovered.

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Shameless Promotion of Finding Stefanie!

Book 3 - The Noble LegacyIt’s Shameless Promotion week ~ Now It’s my turn to plug my newest book — hitting the stands this month…FINDING STEFANIE!

I’m so thrilled about this story — it’s the continuing saga of the Noble Family.  (If you want to catch up, Meet Nick, and find out Who’s Rafe).  Stefanie Noble put her dreams on hold years ago to keep the family ranch from going under.  Now, they’re about to come knocking at her door.  But will she have the courage to follow them? 

Here’s the Publisher’s Description:

Everyone around Stefanie Noble is content, but it seems that her “happily ever after” has passed her by. Then two troubled girls and their older brother, Gideon, show up in town and clearly need help. Could they bring the fulfillment that Stefanie has been searching for? Hollywood hotshot Lincoln Cash has made a life playing the role of an action hero, basking in the laurels of his fame, fortune, and adoring fans. But when he’s diagnosed with a debilitating disease, he knows that life will soon be over. He only has a small window of time to start a new career, one that will earn him legitimate filmmaker kudos. He soon heads to Phillips, Montana, to put his plan into action. Not everyone is pleased with the movie star’s arrival, especially not Stefanie Noble. She’s even less enamored when he accuses Gideon of arson and tries to run him out of town. But what Lincoln and Stefanie don’t know is that neither the fire nor the other strange things that have happened around town are really accidents. Someone is out to get them . . . but who? And who is the real target?
Me:  Don’t worry - if you haven’t read the other two, you won’t be lost.  But if you’ve met the other two brothers, you’ll see Nick and even Rafe and most importantly, you’ll discover movie star Lincoln Cash, who has a secret and is hiding out in Montana.  I loved writing about Lincoln and his secrets, and helping him discover that God has a plan for even the darkest moments in life.  If you like cowboys, and second chances, and discoveries and even young love… Read the first chapter here!

Romantic Times Magazine said: “The third installement in Warren’s Noble Legacy series is just as fresh, vivid and entertaining as the first!”

Click here to Buy the Book!

Okay — shameless promotion over.  Back to our regularly scheduled programming!  Have a wonderful 4th of July!

CFO Article! “Can you hear it?”

I’m so excited to announce that my NEW COLUMN with the Christian Fiction Online Magazine is up!  It’s called From the Big Screen to Your Scene, and takes popular movies and teaches writing techniques from it….

 Here’s a sample from this month’s issue….

 Can you hear it?

August Rush Asks a Question

 

Listen, can you hear it? The music.

I can hear it everywhere.

In the wind;

In the air;

In the light;

It’s all around us.

All you have to do is open yourself up;

All you have to do is listen.

These are the opening lines of last fall’s delightful movie, August Rush, delivered in the haunting, delicate voice of amazing young actor Freddie Highmore. The story opens with young Evan, a so-called orphan, leading a symphony made up of tall grasses in some lush field in upstate New York.  

If you haven’t seen August Rush, rush out (pun intended!) and get it today because the soundtrack is soul filling. The pure delight in Evan/August’s eyes as he creates music resonates in the soul of any writer who loves to try on words for size, move sentences around, watch a character take life. Or for that matter, anyone who writes, or runs, or sings or even cooks, just because they must.  

You’ll also learn something about the use of story question woven clearly, if not overtly, through every character, every scene in the movie.

 To read the rest ~

 

Thanks for reading!