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An excellent resource for anyone who writes fiction (or non-fiction for that matter), Stein on Writing: A Master Editor Shares His Craft, Techniques, and Strategies is a book that will hold a place of importance on your writers’ bookshelf.

This unabridged audio book edition is read by Christopher Lane, who is credited with a "professional and sincere" narration of Stein’s material.

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At eleven hours and sixteen minutes, the book addresses issues of characterization, dialogue, pacing, flashbacks, revision, and more. Stein also touches on the topic of writing non-fiction, making this a complete resource for writers. Stein on Writing is meant for both beginners and professionals, whatever your level, and offers writing instruction to help you solve your writing problems for stronger, more interesting writing.

The audio book is a great place to start, but later, you might want to pick up the print copy so you can refer to the parts you find most helpful.

Paperback: Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies

I’ve read a few good books lately, though I’m still not reading the volume of books I used to read. I went from a book a day to about 2 books a month. That’s a significant difference and I still haven’t really decided why that is. I just found that most books stopped appealing to me.

However, I’ve recently found a series I like and am interested in following. I read [listened to] Storm Front about two and a half weeks ago and really liked it. It’s the first book in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series.

I’ve been working my way through the Stargate Atlantis novels, the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning, and the Psych books too. I’m starting to realize that I like TV as much as I like books these days, but I enjoy the extra enjoyment I get from reading books from those TV worlds.

I’m sure the authors have a much harder time of it too because they have to stay within the confines set by the series in most cases.

I picked up a copy of Naked Heat recently too that I want to read, set in the fictional fictional series written by Richard Castle of the TV series Castle. One of my current absolute favorites on television. :)

Have a comment about things you love or hate about reading, or writing, tie-in novels? Feel free to comment.

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I bought a new phone last night and immediately installed wordpress on it. I can’t say my grammar will be perfect when I use it but I do hope it means I’ll be posting a lot more often.

My device is a droid device and it makes it easy to write using the touch keypad. I decided to go with an android device because that’s what my nook uses and I wanted to stay consistent.

Do you like to post to your blog from your phone?  What phone do you use?

I have a soft spot for romance anthologies. It’s not often though that I recommend a book containing several stories based on the strength of just one story, but I’m doing it now.

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ON THE HUNT

by Gena Showalter, Shannon K. Butcher, Jessica Andersen, Deidre Knight

Signet – February 2011 – Anthology

Over the The Erotic Reader blog, I discuss a bit about the book, why I like it, and why I’m going to end up recommending fans buy On the Hunt even if the rest of the stories don’t turn out to be as good. Because I will. I LOVED Ever Night (Gena Showalter’s story) and think the book is worth the price for that story alone. (And I’m not a Showalter fan, or I wasn’t until now.)

In Ever Night, Rose meets Vasili on the night of her eighteenth birthday when she discovers she’s a Dimension Walker, someone who travels between our dimension and another involuntarily once a year, every year. The other dimension is a nightmarish place.

The story is short, and because of that, I’m not going to give away anything else about the story, except to say that Vasili was spectacular and Rose was a heroine I could care about, strong, but not overdone, and interesting. I enjoyed all the characters in Ever Night and I hope to see them again in a full-length novel sometime…

The book really is off to a great start. I’ll update this post when I finish the book.

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