Fulfill your writing passion by learning from the best! Seattle's award winning writers answer questions like: How do you begin? How do you stay motivated? Do I really need an MFA? What's a step outline? How much is luck? How important is reading for a writer, anyway? These tips encourage aspiring writers, offer useful advice for current authors, and boost motivation for writers hoping to overcome that horror, "writers block." E.C. Murray gathered these insightful tips from authors, poets, essayists and screenwriters who interviewed for The Writers Connection (www.writersconnection.org) from 2009-2018. Spark your writing with encouraging words from: 1.Erik Larson 2.Hank Searls 3.Debbie Macomber 4.Theo Nestor 5.Bruce Barcott 6.Jim Lynch 7.Jonathan Evison 8.Carla Seaquist 9.Randall Platt10.Langdon Cook 11.William Dietz 12.Mike Lawson 13.Carol Cassella 14.Sheila Roberts 15.Susan Rich 16.Stephanie Kallos 17.Jamie Ford 18.Scott Driscoll 19.Marissa Meyer 20.Ryan Boudinot 21.Michele Torrey 22.Garth Stein 23.JA Jance 24.Anca Szilágyi 25.Waverly Fitzgerald 26.Ann Hedreen 27.Diane Mettler 28.Kelli Russell Agodon 29. Bharti Kirchner 30. Elizabeth George

WRITERS UNBLOCKED: Insightful Tips from Award Winning Writers in and around Seattle

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A mysterious widow. A distraught mother. A pristine island in the Pacific Northwest filled with secrets, deception, and duplicity. Meaghan Farren, a distraught widow, speeds from Massachusetts to Lorissa Orondo's home in the Pacific Northwest, hoping to make amends for cruelty back in college. Lorissa, a frustrated mother of teenagers, is coming undone. Her music career, propelled by her Juilliard education, falters; her teenage children are driving her crazy; and her absentee husband constantly travels for work. Still, the two old friends reconcile when Meaghan confesses the family secrets that led to her ruthlessness two decades earlier.Meaghan settles in an apartment on Lorissa's island, starts an accounting business, and falls in love with her sexy neighbor. As in real life, nothing is as it seems. Meaghan abruptly moves to La Serena, Chile where she meditates and communes with nature. Secrets are revealed, a man is shot, and to Lorissa's horror, police arrest her son for shooting an unarmed man in order to steal opioids. Lorissa knows her son is a trouble maker, but she can't believe he'd shoot anyone. In a saga that leads from Massachusetts to Washington state to La Serena, Chile, An Unfamiliar Guest is a story of friendships, suspicion, and intrigue with twists that will shock even the most astute reader.

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In this searing, authentic memoir, Elizabeth is hired to herd goats on a remote mountain farm in the South of France where she carves out a life for herself without heat, running water, or even a good grasp of French. Far from her younger life as a New England preppie and Oregon hippie, the challenges of farm work daunt her. She befriends an Australian shepherd, reflects on her spirituality, and muses on the man she left behind. As she grows stronger, Elizabeth faces her self-doubt while maintaining her humor, eking fun wherever she can. When tragedy strikes Elizabeth's adopted family, she summons belief in herself and becomes the leader they desperately need.

A Long Way from Paris

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