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In these dozen mystery short stories, you’ll find a newcomer’s ignorance used as a murder weapon, a modern, murderous twist on an O’Henry story, an old Irish myth that haunts a teen in an Idaho ski resort, the myriad ways to die in the desert, and much more.

You will succeed as an author if you learn how to live as successful authors do. Failure stalks writers who focus on only the nuts and bolts, frustrations, or the end results of writing. They miss the most important element—live in the passion and engagement of an author’s life.

Conflict in your writing draws listeners who want to listen to your work. Conflict keeps them listening. With conflict in every paragraph and sentence, you’ll create writing that sells.

Writing short is the easiest way to produce and market your work. This, the fourth in Conda’s Write Short to Succeed series, is a workbook full of fun, short writing exercises you can immediately use to successfully sell what you write. It’s a master writing class in everything you need to know to succeed at selling your writing, whether long, short, or both.

Writing short works allows you to practice, practice, practice, and then succeed in all your writing endeavors. In this writing course in an audiobook, you’ll discover fun, quick, and easy exercises that will show you how to: Use best writing techniques to skyrocket your work to another level, strengthen your writing voice, avoid major writing mistakes, or twist them to become writing tools, create an interesting page look and more.

In this workbook for writers of all levels, you’ll find oodles of exercises to get you writing, and writing well, right away. All the while you’ll be writing short, quick, and easy. With over 60 exercises, there’s a wealth of different ones to choose from. Learn how to get words down on the page, no matter what - with a rock, in your dreams, by passing a hat and other fun, easy, and different playful methods.

Jeweler Dora Starke believes creating her own jewelry line with no money and no time is her biggest problem. She's mistaken. When her estranged recluse dad shows up and thrusts a stolen, cursed necklace worth millions at her face and demands she sell it or he's dead, she knows this must be her biggest problem. She's wrong.

Want to be a successful author? Write short. Whether you write short stories or articles or both, you'll find a wealth of benefits from writing short and sweet. Whether you are a new author or a long-established pro, Write Short to Succeed will teach you new, different, and unique techniques for writing short.

In The Mall Fairies: Exile, the first of the Mall Fairies trilogy, Swoop the fairy lives hidden in the attic of a shopping mall. She loves the safety and ease of living in the fairies' town of High Haven, despite the adults insisting she give up her dream of becoming a Flight Instructor. She's terrified of Outside, where fairies can and do die. Swoop discovers her best friend One Wing in the company of a human, breaking the first law: Never Let the Humans Know Fairies Exist.

Poor Kat. Her best friend Debbie insists Kathleen-the-Klutz wear her ugliest bridesmaid's dress to Debbie's wedding. Worse, Kat must bring a plus one! Much worse, if Kat can't get up the courage to ask her new boyfriend, Gary, Debbie threatens to set Kat up with Kat's childhood nemesis, Luke, as a substitute. Can Kat avoid staining her new relationship with Gary long enough to see Debbie down the aisle, or will her trademark clumsiness condemn her to a bridesmaid's worst nightmare?

If Beth can't figure out a way to seduce her love's picky appetite, she fears her relationship is toast-burnt. She cooks up a plan only to have it boil over. What's a terrible cook to do? Can Beth brave a winter storm in search of a Christmas dish to save her relationship - or will the holidays be a distasteful disaster?