“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Tighten and tone your writing style, and use simple revision tricks to slim down your manuscript. Shed thousands of words without changing the plot.Strip away the word fat and reveal the muscle of your unique author voice.This book is short, but potent.It
Create the villain your novel deserves: a fiend whom your readers will love to hate and can never forget. Instead of cardboard evil-doers with evil laughter and stinking breath, you will develop villains with personality, ideals, feelings and conflicts. T
Thirty creepy, atmospheric horror stories by Rayne Hall.These stories are 'quiet' horror, not overly violent and gory, although there are some graphic moments. Please note: these stories have been previously published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies
DUSK A time between times. A whore hides something monstrous and finds something special. A homeless man discovers the razor blade inside the apple. Unlikely love is found in the strangest of places. Secrets and dreams are kept… forever. Or was it all j
Ten ghost stories by Tracie McBride, William Meikle, Carole Ann Moleti, Kiersten Hartrim, Sera Hayes, April Grey, Rayne Hall, Douglas Kolacki, Jonathan Broughton, Grayson Bray Morris. Edited by Rayne Hall. 1. GHOSTS CAN BLEED by Tracie McBrideGhosts can b
Are your frightening scenes scary enough? Learn practical tricks to turn up the suspense. Make your readers' hearts hammer with suspense, their breaths quicken with excitement, and their skins tingle with goosebumps of delicious fright. This book contains
This book will help you to write a fight scene which is entertaining as well as realistic, and leaves the reader breathless with excitement.The book suggests a six-part structure to use as blueprint for your scene, and reveals tricks how to combine fighti