Splickety Magazine 1.4 By Splickety Magazine in Splickety Magazine 20 pages, published 5/6/2013 Check out our fourth issue of Splickety Magazine, a Special My Book Therapy Contest issue. Susan May Warren, founder of My Book Therapy and best-selling author of multiple novels, headlines this issue with a story that connects to her latest novel Take a Chance on Me. We’re also featuring a story by Best-selling author Rachel Hauck and the winner of My Book Therapy’s flash fiction contest–but you’ll have to read the issue to find out who it… Hey Friends! I’m so thrilled to announce that My Book Therapy has partnered with Splickety Magazine for a fun Short Story Contest! Inside this great issue, you’ll find the winners, plus some fun articles on writing short stories (and how […]
Read the Rest
About Susan May Warren
Former Russian Missionary Susan May Warren is the best-selling author of more than 40 novels and novellas with Tyndale, Barbour and Steeple Hill, and Summerside. A Christy award and RITA winner, and multiple finalist for the RITA, Christy and winner of Inspirational Readers Choice contest, Susan currently has over a million books in print. A seasoned women’s events speaker and writing teacher, she is the founder of http://www.mybooktherapy.com an online community for writers, and runs a fiction editing service teaching writers how to tell a great story. Visit her online at: http://www.susanmaywarren.com.Author Archive | Susan May Warren
How do you date your reader?
In every romance the key is making your characters fall in love, right? We’ve talked about HOW we fall in love…how we connect to each other’s core values, and how we complement each other and make each other into stronger people. However, how do you actually write that journey, step by step? How do you woo your reader into falling in love with your characters, too? You have to date your reader. Okay, let’s just analyze this for a moment. Remember the last time you fell in love? You saw him or her across the room, and something about their physical appearance intrigued you. It told you something about them—perhaps they were brave, or strong, or creative, or disheveled, or rough-edged. You probably noticed their […]
Read the RestFrom Good to Great: Editing basics
In honor of national Grammar Day, I’m going to post the MBT Good to Great Checklist! See, it’s not only about WHAT you write. It’s HOW you write it. We often say it’s about story. And it is. But a good writer can make any story compelling…..a bad writer can take a great story and blow it. Yes, there are mediocre writers out there, but the story compensates. And there are fabulous writers out there, writing a story that doesn’t deliver. You have to have structure AND art to deliver a powerful story. An author’s voice is ART. It’s how you express the story. It’s the one component that is more instinct than rules. However, before you can start to express yourself through your […]
Read the Rest
