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BOOK PROMO | Romantic Suspense | WRITING | ZARA WEST

Under the Skin is Coming! Hanger Finally Finds Love

~ The Release Day is Only One Week Away ~ Under the Skin, Book 4 in The Skin Quartet, will release on June 19th. For…

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ROMANCE | Romantic Suspense | WRITING | ZARA WEST

20 Ways to Show Love: Writing Romantic Suspense Heroes

~Show Them Love~ It takes a special kind of man to be a hero in his lover’s eyes. He doesn’t have to be muscle-bound. He…

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Organize and De-Clutter Your Writing Zone

~ Make It Beautiful! ~ Organizing is something you do before you do something, so when you do it, it is not all mixed up….

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Focus on Writing by Zara West
INSPIRATION | WRITING

Focus on Writing: Discovering Flow

~ Becoming a Focused Writer ~ Being able to focus is always an issue for a creative writer. No one is telling you what story…

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2019 Zara West New Year Resolutions
INSPIRATION | WRITING | ZARA WEST

My 2019 New Year Resolutions: A Dozen Hopes

 ~A Dozen Hopes for 2019 ~ Time to make those 2019 New Year Resolutions. I have a long tradition of making New Year’s Resolutions. I…

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12 Things I am Thankful for: A Writer’s List of Thankfuls

~ What I am Thankful For ~ On this Thanksgiving Day, I thought I would make a list of all the things I am thankful…

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Write your scenes using the W-Plot
WRITING | ZARA WEST

W-Plot Your Way to a Better Scene

~ Plot Your Scene with the W-Plot Method ~ The W-Plot can be used to lay out an entire novel, but it’s true strength is…

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BOOK PROMO | Marketing | WRITING

What Makes You Want to Read a Book?

~Does Books+Main Have the Right Idea? ~ There are a whole bunch of e-book sales listing services out there – Bookbud, Fussy Librarian, Rifle, E-Reader…

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Award-winning Close to the Skin by Zara West
BOOK PROMO | Marketing | WRITING | ZARA WEST

Winning an Award

~ Are you more likely to read a book that has won an award? ~ This week my romantic suspense Close to the Skin is…

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Character as Verb Using Actions; The Actors' Thesaurus
Book Reviews | WRITING | ZARA WEST

What Verb is Your Character? Actioning for Writers

~ I ________ you ~ I was very fortunate to have the chance to hear Damon Suede speak at the New Jersey Romance Writers Conference…

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Writing in Fifteen Minutes by Zara West
Book Reviews | WRITING

Fifteen Minutes Writing – The Book Factory Method

~ Life in Fifteen Minutes ~ Do you know how much time you spend on daily activities like reading e-mail and perusing Facebook? Do you…

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Zra West book review of Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes
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Book Review: Romancing the Beat

~The Path of True Love ~ I truly believe that the best way to learn to be a writer is to be a voracious reader….

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