Charlotte (Charlie) Silver is a professional tennis player on the rise who dreams of winning a Grand Slam. After a disastrous game at Wimbledon, she decides to hire a new coach, Todd Feltner, a living legend in the tennis world even though his methods are borderline abusive. Thus begin a rigorous training, a strict diet and an image makeover. Soon, Charlie ranks among the best in the world, goes to exciting parties,…
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Engineers and Creative Writing
The following is a guest post by J.J. White, author of Deviant Acts. It seems incredulous engineers could be competent as creative writers, considering they deal primarily with technical issues in the workplace, but the literary world would disagree. Many great and not so great engineers have gone on to successful careers as authors of short stories and novels. Fyodor Dostoevsky spent many years toiling over schematics and conversion tables before…
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The Best Book I (Almost) Never Wrote
The following is a guest post by Jackie Minniti, author of Jacqueline. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I’m a firm believer that nothing important happens by chance. This belief has been validated many times as I’ve traveled through the sixty-seven years of my life, but never more than a recent experience that shed a new light on…
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To Curse or Not to Curse: That’s the Dilemma
The following is a guest post by M. E. May, author of Unscrupulous, the 5th book in the Circle City Mystery series. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. When I started writing the Circle City Mystery series, I wanted it to be realistic as the series centered on cases solved by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. Police officers…
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RIP Harper Lee
Last week, I learnt with sadness about the passing of Harper Lee. Her book To Kill a Mockingbird is a favorite of mine and is, in my opinion, one of the best American classics. Born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, she was the youngest of 4 children. Her father was a lawyer, perhaps the inspiration for Atticus Finch. Her mother suffered from mental illness, and…
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Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome by Reba Riley
Reba Riley was raised in an Evangelical Pentecostal household where they used Jesus-themed paper napkins. After high school, she went to ministry training but started questioning her faith when her parents got a divorce. Later, when she left the Church, she experienced a total loss of identity or, as she likes to call it, post-traumatic church syndrome. Then she started to feel really sick, and doctors were not able to…
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What is a Ghost?
The following is a guest post by Daniel Diehl, co-author of Apparition Atlas: The Ghost Hunter’s Travel Guide to Haunted America with Mark Donnelly. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. While working on our new, nonfiction book, Apparition Atlas: The Ghost Hunter’s Travel Guide to Haunted America my co-author, Mark Donnelly, and I came across this provocative…
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Andrew Joyce’s Journey as a Writer
The following is a guest post by Andrew Joyce, author of Molly Lee. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. My name is Andrew Joyce, and I write books for a living. Cécile has been kind enough to allow me a little space on her blog to promote my new book, Molly Lee. The story is a female-driven account…
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How I Research My Books – Rembrandt
The following is a guest post by Douglas Phillip, author of Spirit Made Smaller. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Last year in my guest entry I briefly overviewed my four cardinal biases, and how I had to acknowledge and control for them whenever I searched for and discovered background materials for my upcoming novels. In this submission,…
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Writer’s Block Over the Years
The following is a guest post by Peggy Hanson, author of the Elizabeth Darcy series that includes Deadline Istanbul and Deadline Yemen. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com Every writer has it. Those moments of looking at a blank page and seeing nothing. “No brain-to-page network available.” For years after I started writing fiction, I used the same…