Volume 5: Three-Dimensional Fiction Writing 3d cover coming soon
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3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, Volume 5: Three-Dimensional Fiction Writing by Karen S. Wiesner

Craft a story so lifelike, you actually feel like you can step into the world beyond the pages! You know it when you read it: In page after page and scene after scene, a truly engrossing story has qualities that set it apart. Authentic characters, a well-rounded plot, and immersive settings work in harmony to create a three-dimensional experience--one you can practically step inside and explore. But while you can recognize this work when you read it, writing it can…
3D Fiction Fundamentals Series, Volume 4: Writing the Overarching Series
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3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, Volume 4: Writing the Overarching Series (or How I Sent a Clumsy Girl into Outer Space) by Karen S. Wiesner

Reach for the stars!   The Overarching Series is the most complicated to read and write. In this specialized type of series, none of the installments can truly be standalones. They must be read as a set in sequence to make sense. Reader satisfaction is only partially achieved in each volume because just the story arcs tie up while the series arc only resolves in the final.   Speculative fiction is particularly well-suited to the Overarching Series structure because the…
3D Fiction Fundamentals Series, Volume 3: Writing the Standalone Series 3d cover coming soon
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3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, Volume 3: Writing the Standalone Series by Karen S. Wiesner

The definitive guide to crafting a series! From the Hunger Games Trilogy to the Jack Reacher Series, from Harry Potter to Harry Dresden, there's no denying that writers--and readers--have caught series fever. But if you're contemplating writing a series, there are plenty of considerations you'll need to make first. Writing the Standalone Series is the complete guide to ensuring your series stays hot after the first, fourth, or even fifteenth book.   Inside, you'll learn how to: -Write a series…
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3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, Volume 1: First Draft Outline by Karen S. Wiesner

(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and some from Angus and Robertson)   First Draft Outline Bonus Companion Booklet First Draft Outline Bonus Companion Booklet contains all the blank worksheets, checklists, charts, exercises, and/or other aids from the main book along with in-depth examples. This companion booklet is provided as a supplement, assuming readers have a working knowledge of the methods discussed in First Draft Outliner. A free, editable digital file…
3D Fiction Fundamentals Series Boxed Set
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3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection by Karen S. Wiesner

  3D Fiction Fundamentals Series covers the A to Z's of crafting the highest quality fiction including how to: Brainstorm and work productively to ensure that each stage in the writing process from prewriting to polishing produces masterful results the first time around. Create an outline so complete it actually qualifies as the first draft of your book, allowing your first written draft to be final-draft quality. Develop realistically three-dimensional and cohesive characters, plots, settings, relationships, and scenes so life-like…
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3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, Volume 6: CPR for Dead or Lifeless Fiction: A Writer’s Guide to Deep and Multifaceted Development and Progression of Characters, Plots, and Relationship by Karen S. Wiesner

(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and some from Angus and Robertson)     Bonus Companion Booklet for CPR for Dead or Lifeless Fiction CPR for Dead or Lifeless Fiction {A Writer's Guide to Deep and Multifaceted Development and Progression of Characters, Plots, and Relationships} Bonus Companion Booklet contains all the blank worksheets, checklists, charts, exercises, and/or other aids from the main book along with detailed examples. This companion booklet is…
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Cohesive Story Building WORKSHEETS by Karen S. Wiesner

All the worksheets, checklists, and exercises from Cohesive Story Building are included here in a usable format, namely Rich Text Format (RTF), which allows for cross-platform document exchange and which most word processors are able to read or write to. Type right into the document and use it over and over as needed! PDF format is also available. Additionally, for those who prefer a printed version, a paperback booklet is available. For those unfamiliar with Cohesive Story Building, here is…
Cool Off The Hot Seat! Tips for 'Acing' Your Job Interview 3d cover updated 2023
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Cool Off The Hot Seat! Tips for ‘Acing’ Your Job Interview By Rebecca Rothman McCoy

Your interviewer is staring you down from across his desk and the butterflies in your stomach are more active than Hitchcock's Birds. Your palms are sweating, your heart is racing, and the worst-case scenario is all you can envision in your future. You want this job. You need this job. You have to have it...! Has he noticed my discomfort? you wonder as you stutter when asked what sets you apart from all the others that have been interviewed before…
Different Blood: The Vampire as Alien 3d cover updated 2023
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Different Blood by Margaret L. Carter

Different blood flows in their veins--but our blood quenches their thirst. From Bram Stoker's 1897 creation of Count Dracula, portrayed as a foreign invader bent on the conquest of England, the literary vampire has symbolized the Other, whether his or her otherness arises from racial, ethnic, sexual, or species difference. Even before the bloodsucking Martians of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, however, popular fiction contained a few vampires who were members of alien species rather than supernatural undead. Even…
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3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, Volume 7: Writing Blurbs That Sizzle–And Sell! by Karen S. Wiesner

(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble)   Bonus Companion Booklet for Writing Blurbs That Sizzle--And Sell! CPR for Dead or Lifeless Fiction {A Writer's Guide to Deep and Multifaceted Development and Progression of Characters, Plots, and Relationships} Bonus Companion Booklet contains all the blank worksheets, checklists, charts, exercises, and/or other aids from the main book along with detailed examples. This companion booklet is provided as a supplement, assuming readers have…
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Radically Real! The Quest for Authenticity by David C. Weiss

    Chapter 1 What is Radically Real?  You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand. And…
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3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, Volume 2: Cohesive Story Building by Karen S. Wiesner

(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and some from Angus and Robertson)     Cohesive Story Building Bonus Companion Booklet The blank worksheets from COHESIVE STORY BUILDING by Karen S. Wiesner are provided free in an editable digital file that allows users to type right into the document and use it over and over as needed. (Link below) A print edition is also available for purchase (link also below). This bonus…