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Among topics discussed at our September 2018 meeting:

• Dialect and how some authors and readers embrace it, and other authors and readers eschew it.
• Gender and race perspective from earlier times and how they are reflected in fiction.
• Ways to get short stories shorter, including set a time limit for how long it will take to read them and edit them accordingly.
• Chris’ entry for a one-act-play script competition, his coming noir reading event, and his submission of his short story “Hop, Skip, Jump” to horror publisher JournalStone.
• Dave’s new short story, set in India, which we will read and critique at our next meeting.
• Russ’ multiple projects and opportunities for submission currently in play, and his delivery of his manuscript Soldiers of the Soil, for critique by the group in its November meeting.
• John’s work on this murder mystery novel set in Bucks County during World War II
• Whether there are more open guidelines for acceptable novel length if the novel is an historic novel.
• Other authors and related movies.

 

 

 

Rebels have been rocking it all summer.  Here are just a few of the items we covered in our May-through-August meetings:

• All of the excitement and events (and author stress and joy) around Chris’ book launch https://chrisbauerauthor.wordpress.com, including the need for an author to secure good reviews before the release of a book.
• Critique of Martha’s manuscript, A Killing Tide,a thriller about a Florida naturalist who uncovers a weapons-running operation.
• Critique of Mel’s manuscript, Meetinghouse Road,an upmarket novel about a family of four rocked by a marital and gender-crossing challenges, and teenage angst and misdeeds.
• Discussion of the position of the inciting incident within a novel, vis a vie John’s revisions of his murder mystery novel.
• Commiseration about Dave’s physical affliction, currently under treatment, that affects his hands such that he cannot type. Dang!
• Russ’ trials in trying to query four different completed novels while working hot and heavy on yet another new one to deliver to the Rebels for their consideration by early fall.
• Writing for art and self versus writing for the market. Can we do both?
• A craft caution against inserting interpretation during an action scene in third person intimate point of view, when a character would not naturally have an opportunity for such musings.

Chris’ new novel, a thriller with some serious political and legal story lines, will be out in June!  Yeah, go Chris, go Rebs.

Chris’ hero, Judge Drury, is truly a unique and colorful character –– a bounty hunter on the trail of a deadly anti-abortion radical, whose bloody trail to Washington, D.C. might just determine whether plotters succeed in overturning Roe vs. Wade, might just reveal who Jane Roe’s baby is, and might just bring them all together in the SCOTUS court room for a dramatic finish.  Learn more about this page-turner and pre-order your copy today.