It’s not easy to write a sequel…

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This month's Christian Fiction Online Article: Craft Tips and Techniques from Today's Blockbusters
 

Back to Deep Magic of Narnia: How to Write a Successful Sequel 
 
It’s not easy to write a sequel…
 
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Write a book with My Book Therapy Voices in 2009!

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Remember those games you used to play where your friend started the story, and you finished it?  Or the “Choose your own ending” books?  Ever wanted to be a part of the story process, giving input on the character’s decisions, learning how to write a book as you go?  Me too!

Here at My Book Therapy,

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Craft Tips and Techniques from Today’s Blockbusters

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From December issue of Christian Fiction Magazine

Craft Tips and Techniques from Today’s Blockbusters
Indy and the Great Promise: A study of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

…who can argue with the magic of Connery and Ford as father and son…
I’ll never forget the first time I met Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Christian Fiction Online!

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The new issue is available!

Craft Tips and Techniques from Today’s Blockbusters

P.S.. I Love You and the Art of Flashbacks

Plant clues to the past to raise your reader’s curiosity…

P.S.: I really, really love you!

P.S.

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This month's Christian Fiction Online Article

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…But instead of one of them, there’s a flock of look-alike dresses, all fitting (painfully) differently on each attendant…

What we can learn from 27 Dresses?

The problem with bridesmaids dresses is that they’re overcute. Especially the ones from the ’80s—you know what I’m talking about. Go to your closet,

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Taming Rafe in Wally World

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It’s long been a dream of mine to walk into a Walmart somewhere in America and find one of my books on the shelf.  Not in the bulk pile, but on the shelf next to my favorite authors like Karen Kingsbury and Ted Dekker….

And it happened yesterday.  There I was, browsing the Palm Bay Wally World for suntan oil and WHALLA! 

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Check it out!

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CFBA has a new on-line magazine. It ROCKS…chock full of HELPFUL and interesting articles. They really have done a wonderful job pulling from all facets of the Christian publishing industry. Way to go guys.

Oh…and I was lucky enough to be in the PREMIERE issue.

Craft Tips and Techniques from Today’s Blockbusters

If you haven’t seen August Rush,

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Ask a Writer Anything: What Is A Happy Ending?

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Melissa asked: Why does every book have to have a happy ending? Don’t get me wrong, I like the happy ending, but at the same time there are a few books that I have read that totally threw me by not having the expected happy ending, the guy didn’t get the girl, and they didn’t live happily ever after with 2.5 kids and a dog.

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