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    Smoky's Writer's Workshop Combo Set
    By Smoky Trudeau Zeidel
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    Smoky's Writing Workshop Combo Set Out in Ebook!





    Smoky's Writer's Workshop Combo Set


    KINDLE

    ASIN B005GQ8A7S

    LONGLINK  http://www.amazon.com/Smokys-Writers-Workshop-Combo-ebook/dp/B005GQ8A7S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313038039&sr=8-1


    Short Link

    http://amzn.to/reIBol

     

    AllRomance and OmniLit

    http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-smoky039swriter039sworkshopcomboset-588575-174.html

     

    SMASHWORDS AUTHOR PAGE

    https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/smokytrudeau

     

    SMASHWORDS BOOK PAGE WITH VIDEO EMBEDDED

    https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/80527

     

    VIDEO LINK

    http://youtu.be/4YOl1HaPRlo

     


    Special Combination Set combining two of Smoky's most popular writer's workshops, including the basics and more of becoming a published author and a year's worth of fun and educational prompts and lessons.

     

    Front-word, Back-word, Insight-Out:
    Lessons on Writing the Novel Lurking Inside You From Start to Finish

    and

    Left Brained, Write Brained: 366 Writing Prompts and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit, Awaken Your Muse, and Challenge Your Skills Every Day of the Year

    by Smoky Trudeau Zeidel


    Acknowledgements

    Thanks to all the students of the Fiction Writer’s Workshop at Parkland Community College and Heartland Community College for making teaching such a pleasurable experience. Certain students in particular—Jack Houser, Robert Hays, and others too numerous to name—made my job particularly rewarding.Thanks also to Kimberlee Williams of Vanilla Heart Publishing for encouraging me to put my workshop in book form from which other aspiring writers can learn my methods.


    BOOK ONE

    Front-word, Back-word, Insight-Out:
    Lessons on Writing the Novel Lurking Inside You From Start to Finish

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Front-Word
    Chapter One: Getting Started
    Chapter Two: Characterization
    Chapter Three: Setting
    Chapter Four: Point of View
    Chapter Five: Dialogue
    Chapter Six: Plot Development
    Chapter Seven: The End
    Chapter Eight: Fallow Times: Dealing with Writer’s Block
    Chapter Nine: Revision
    Chapter Ten: Submitting Your Work
    Chapter Eleven: Really Stupid Things Authors do to Screw Themselves
    Back-Word
    Endnotes
    Recommended Reading


    BOOK TWO


    Left Brained, Write Brained: 366 Writing Prompts and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit, Awaken Your Muse, and Challenge Your Skills Every Day of the Year


     


    Smoky Trudeau Zeidel is the author of novels, short stories, and two nonfiction books especially for writers: Front-Word, Back-Word,Insight Out: Lessons on Writing the Novel Lurking Inside You From Start to Finish; and Left Brained, Write Brained: 366 Writing Prompts and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit, Awaken Your Muse, And Challenge Your Skills Every Day of the Year, all from Vanilla Heart Publishing. She has published short stories and poetry in literary journals such as CALYX and online e-zines such as The Foundling Review, and was a 2003 Pushcart Prize nominee.

    An ardent outdoorswoman with a deep reverence for nature, Smoky’s  Observations of an Earth Mage is a collection of prose and poetry celebrating the fragile beauty of our planet. She was the lead editor for Vanilla Heart Publishing’s 2010 Nature’s Gifts anthology.

    Finally succumbing to her bohemian spirit and need to live near the mountains and the ocean, Smoky moved to Southern California in 2008, where she lives with her husband and daughter in a ramshackle cottage in the woods overlooking the San Gabriel Valley and the San Gabriel Mountains beyond. When she isn’t writing, she spends her time hiking in the mountains, camping in the Sierras,splashing in tidepools, and fighting the urge to speak in haiku. 


    WEBSITE

    http://SmokyZeidel.wordpress.com/

     

     

     


Saturday, 06 August 2011

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    Nothing But The Best
    By Frank Sinatra
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    Blog Jog Day - Celebrating Vanilla Heart Publishing's Heart - Our Authors!

     
     



    Welcome to Blog Jog Day! Please enjoy our site then click over to http://www.SimplySaneParent.com to see what the next Blog has to offer! Lost in the links? You can always go back to the main Blog Jog Day Blog at http://BlogJogDay.blogspot.com and find a new link to jog from. Thank you for stopping by Vanilla Heart Publishing on Xanga!





    Our fabulous core group authors are what make
    Vanilla Heart Publishing the Publisher with Heart!


    Today, for Blog Jog Day, we're simply saying out loud what we've been thinking for years...

    Vanilla Heart Publishing is very proud of our authors! Can you tell? They continue to amaze us with the quality of their writing, the storylines they work so hard to develop, the flow and easy readability of their novels, multi-dimensional characters with a depth of character that includes flaws and quirks readers can relate to, their energy and enthusiasm, and their fabulous ideas for the next manuscript.


    To give you an ample taste of their wide ranging talents and styles, please feel free to download a FREE Sampler from any or all of our Core Group Authors - no strings! - no joining! - just 4 great chapters from each novel, from:

    Angela Kay Austin, Anne K. Albert, Charmaine Gordon, Chelle Cordero, Collin Kelley, Janet Lane Walters, K.D. Richardson, L.E. Harvey, Malcolm R. Campbell, Marilyn Celeste Morris, Melinda Clayton, Robert Hays, S.R. Claridge, Smoky Trudeau Zeidel, Victoria Howard, and Vila SpiderHawk



    Just Click on the Picture for a FREE Instant Download!



                    


     
              
     

                



                  

        
                

            



                   


     
            

           
         
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    Be sure to visit our New VHP Author's Blog and Site where we'll be giving away prizes through the month of September for our Grand Opening. We'll have Author chats, a time to visit with a VHP Author and win giveaways, our title catalogs (Kindle, Print, AllRomance, and Smashwords Multiformat, Author Accolades, drawings for neat swag, and more... 

    http://VHPAuthors.wordpress.com



    And over on our Vanilla Heart Books And Authors Website, you will find book videos, announcements, specials, more freebies, extensive author pages, and our FREE downloadable and printable Book Club Extras, with discussion starters, title information, and color bookmarks, plus catalogs with buy links, seasonal discounts and specials, and surprises...

    http://www.VanillaHeartBooksAndAuthors.com









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    Nothing But the Best: Rock Classics
    By White Heart
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    Blog Jog Day Coming Soon! Tomorrow, Sunday August 7 in fact!




    Join us for Blog Jog Day Sunday,August 7, 2011.

    Discover new blogs! Make newfriends! Win prizes! Have fun!


    Blog Jog Day is a one-day-event where Bloggers are joining together for apyramid effect promotional rally. We all post on the same day with each postleading the visitor to the next Blog, and so on full circle. Visitors explore your Blog, and then click on to the next one bringingpotentially thousands of unique visitors to your site. Read a few...or a few hundred! Many of the particpating BJD folks will have contests and freebies... we will! Close to 2,000 ‘joggers’explored many sites and blogs new to them on Blog Job Day last November, andmany people had a good increase in Followers and Friends.


    Be sure to stop back on Sunday, August 7th when we will be giving away freedownloads of several books, and several surprises!


    Thank you for supporting our terrific Vanilla Heart Publishing Authors! See you tomorrow!





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