University Bookstore in Seattle, Washington
College bookstores, like University Bookstore in Seattle, are the best! Check them out! Address: 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98105 Phone: (206) 634-3400; (800) 335-7323 Email: bookstore@ubookstore.com Twitter: @uwubie
Secret Garden Books in Seattle, Washington
Secret Garden Books loves authors! They are the Ballard bookstore of choice. Check them out! Address: 2214 NW Market Street, Seattle, Washington 98107 Phone: (206) 789-5006 Email: bookshop@secretgardenbooks.com
Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle, Washington
The Queen Anne Book Company is “the shop around the corner” – full of charm; a community hub. Check them out! Address: 1811 Queen Anne Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109 Phone: (206) 284-2427 Email: qabc@qabookco.com
Book for All Seasons in Leavenworth, Washington
A Book for All Seasons is a charming literary break in the heart of Washington’s Bavaria. I especially appreciate that they partner with schools to bring in authors. Check them out! Address: 703 Highway 2, Leavenworth, WA 98826 Phone: (509) 548-1451; (866) 227-8747 Email: info@abookforallseasons.com
The Tattered Cover in Denver, Colorado
The Tattered Cover is one of my favorite bookstores, along with Book People in Austin, Texas, thanks to their exceptionally friendly service and number of books on the shelf. Check them out! Address: 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, Colorado 80206 Phone: 303-322-7727; 800-833-9327 Email: books@tatteredcover.com
Book People in Austin, Texas
Book People is one of my two favorite bookstores, along with The Tattered Cover in Denver, thanks to their exceptionally friendly service and number of books on the shelf. Check them out! Address: 603 N. Lamar, Austin, Texas 78703 Phone: 512-472-5050; 800-853-9757 Email: customerservice@bookpeople.com
How to Create Instantly (& Instinctively) Recognizable Characters; by Helga-Schier
From: http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/how-to-create-instantly-instinctively-recognizable-characters Meeting characters in a novel is very much like meeting people in real life. When we start reading a book, it’s as if we moved to a new town and were meeting a whole bunch of new people at the same time. Your job as a writer is to create that town and populate it with characters that live their lives before our eyes.
A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939, by Maria Popova
From: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/04/a-technique-for-producing-ideas-young “The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.” Literature is the original “inter-net,” woven of a web of allusions, references, and citations that link different works together into an endless rabbit hole of discovery. Case in point: Last week’s wonderful field guide to creativity, Dancing About Architecture, mentioned in passing an intriguing old book originally published… Read More
How To Uncover Your Character’s Emotional Wound, by Angela Ackerman
From: http://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/05/how-to-uncover-your-characters-emotional-wound “One of the challenges a fiction writer faces, especially when prolific, is coming up with fresh ways to describe emotions. This handy compendium fills that need. It is both a reference and a brainstorming tool, and one of the resources I’ll be turning to most often as I write my own books.” James Scott Bell, bestselling author of Deceived and Plot & Structure “In these brilliantly conceived, superbly organized and astonishingly… Read More
Designing a Book Cover That Tells by Christopher Lentz
As Guest Blogger on Writers in the Storm, Christopher Lentz offers perspective on book cover design in his post, Designing a Book Cover That Tells. What does your book cover tell potential readers? Learn the backward “6” pattern and how to telegraph the story’s key themes via images, colors and fonts.