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  • BREAKING NEWS!!

    Author Mayra Calvani announced early this morning that the Spanish version of her book, CRASH! is now available. To learn more, visit her book’s page at Guardian Angel Publishing. Congrats Mayra. We wish you much success! Want to learn more about Mayra Calvani? Her next stop is the Daily News in Chatel Village!

  • A CRASH! Course on Author Mayra Calvani

    The first day of the Bounding for Books Blog Tour is here. Author Mayra Calvani stopped by and shared all on her latest book CRASH! Be sure to stop by her blog http://www.crashthepuppy.blogspot.com and leave a comment. At the end of the tour one lucky winner will receive an autographed copy of the print version…

  • Bounding for Books Blog Tour

    We have an exciting two weeks coming up! The Bounding for Books Blog Tour is underway June 1, 2009. Follow along the tour. You’ll hear from authors Mayra Calvani, Donna Shepherd, Kim Chatel, Margot Finke, Shari Lyle-Soffe and Jennifer Gladen. Learn more about these authors and their books published by Guardian Angel Publishing.We also have…

  • Jen’s Writing Tip #8: This, That and the Other Thing

    Looking to cut words in your manuscript to meet the word count? After you review it for unnecessary sentences, do a search through your document. Search for the word “that.” It’s a word we use without realizing it. Many times, it just clutters up the work. For example: It made Tammi mad that Alice took…

  • Jen’s Writing Tip #7

    Watch “ly” words We’ve heard it before. Editors don’t like words that end in “ly”. Sometimes they are necessary and even make your paragraph better, but most of the time they get in your way of a clean cut manuscript. I once was guilty of this writing sin. I had about 4 “ly” words in…

  • Jen’s Writing Tip# 6 Top Ten Questions to Ask Your Character

    When writing a story, it’s important to know your character. It’s been said you should know your character as well as you know yourself. One way to do that is to “interview” your character. You aren’t going to use all the information you come up with, but you will have a rich background of information…

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