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Tuesday Guest Post: Lynn Cahoon

My Real Life Ghost Story
I told Pam I would talk about the locally famous haunted house (McPike Mansion, Alton IL) down the street from where I live, but I changed my mind.
Instead, since I write romance and am celebrating the release of my debut book, The Bull Rider’s Brother, I’m telling you the story of the ghost who tried to save me from a bad marriage.
I was just eighteen, summer between freshmen and sophomore year at college. Living at home, I was working swing shift at a local factory making plastic milk bottles. (As a side note, if you want to make sure your college age child returns to school after summer break, get them a job watching a machine make plastic bottles. I ran back to school after that summer.)
One day, I met the man who would become my first husband. He worked days at the same factory. We started dating, mistake number one.
Later that week, I saw one of the jokesters who worked my shift sitting on top of the pop machine right outside the door that lead to m…

Tuesday Guest Post: Sara Jayne Townsend

SHORT STORIES: WRITING AS THERAPY?

My first successes in writing were with short stories. After a couple of attempts at overlong pieces that were bogged down with unnecessary detail, I decided to change tactics and try my hand at short stories. It wasn’t necessary to put pages of info dumps in a short story (one of my early sins in writing novels). It wasn’t necessary to explain a character’s life story to a reader. A short story wasn’t so much a life history as a snap shot – a moment in time. All the reader needed to know about a character was what was relevant to that moment in time.
As a teenager I was fond of stories with a nasty surprise at the end (Stephen King’s “Survivor Type” is a memorable example). So I started to horror stories with a twist ending. When I was seventeen I wrote a story called “Just Don’t Scream”. All I really knew about the main character, Jesse, is that he wasn’t very happy with his lot in life. Wandering around a deserted fairground, he takes on a…

Tuesday Guest Post: Rayne Hall

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