Here is the latest Boroughs Publishing Group newsletter for my followers to peruse:
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November
2017
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writer's world
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from the editor's desk
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Boroughs Publishing Group
News
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Bleeding Like Me
Being gay in their 'hood is
perilous. Being gay in a street gang is unheard of. Being gay & in
love with a man in a rival gang is a death wish. learn
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Infamy
Landry isn't into sharing,
especially when it comes to the secret that will give Brody the
ammunition to take up permanent residence in her heart. learn
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Tigress
Caged her whole life, Raz
escapes only to find herself caught in a tender trap created by the Alpha
& Beta of the North Woods pack. learn
more
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Beyond Today
Ticking all the boxes, the new
man in Hannah's life has a past with enough baggage for a voyage &
she can't see how they'll make it work beyond today. learn
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Mistletoe
Caitlyn wants passion, love
and a romance she can call her own, not a pretend love affair with her
late sister's husband. learn
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Neo Geisha
Reluctant to become a spy
again, Cage's instincts prove correct when all hell breaks loose for him
& his lady love, who is also his new partner. learn
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Spotlight
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We’re
celebrating the 6th book in
M. Tasia's
Boys of Brighton series
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Travis
The
world can be a cruel place, and Travis Boone knows that better than most;
wracked with guilt and living life as an outcast, finding love and
happiness are the furthest things from his reality, until Bo Mason. learn
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Tips &
Answers
Titles of Works – Quotes or
Italics
Many of our authors include movie, book, and song titles in their stories.
Some have asked, "Should I put them in quotes or italics?"
Using The Chicago Manual
of Style,
the style guide our editors and copy editors use,
here are some basic rules:
*Titles of books, newspapers, and musical albums should be italicized*
*Titles of movies, TV shows, and plays should be italicized*
*Titles of poems and songs should be in quotation marks*
*Titles of articles in newspapers or magazines, and chapter titles in books
should be in quotation marks*
POP QUIZ
Test your knowledge. Below are underlined titles. Choose whether they
should be italicized or in quotation marks. The answers are at the bottom.
1. Is the most popular book of all time Saving Alexander?
2. Dash wrote Lexi a new song entitled, You’re Still My Girl.
3. Who binge watched The Vampire Diaries?
4. Will you be attending the new play, Emily Mims Writes, at the
Durango Street Theater?
5. After Lilli read the movie review for Victoria & Abdul, she
ordered a ticket.
1. Italics. 2. Quotation marks
3. Italics 4. Italics 5. Italics.
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Boroughs Book Club
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Go Ahead, Shock 'Em
 A favorite question
reads something like this, "The heroine's mother is really horrible.
Is it okay if I have her throw battery acid at the heroine?"
Inevitably, the answer is, "Yes."
Real life is
messy, and sometimes downright ugly. Headlines, push notifications, the
evening news and social media are rife with all sorts of mind-boggling
hideousness. And, for those of you that write historical novels, you need
look no further than the newspapers and broadsheets of the day to know the
world wasn't much prettier three hundred years ago. People are people, and
whether they have an iWatch or a sundial, human nature hasn't changed for
millennia.
Capitalize on
that. Don't be afraid to have parents, siblings or lovers behave badly. The
pathos is best when the people who are supposed to love and protect the H/H
from harm are the ones who mess up the worst. BUT, few people are all bad.
Be careful not to make the evildoer a caricature. The mother throwing the
battery acid may have been a great parent until her life fell apart. In
books, as in life, the better the person, the more horrific their bad deeds
seem.
Also, don't
shock just to shock. There have to be reasons that makes sense in the story
and provide the trauma that justifies your H/H's fear of commitment, having
children, taking risks...you get the idea. Which doesn't mean there has to
be an explanation for the evildoer's behavior, only that whatever he/she
did is the root or fulcrum for your H/H's issues.
Go on, create
the worst possible background for your H/H. Give juicy, original reasons
for their complex problems, which can be healed only by their newfound
love.
EVERYONE AT BOROUGHS PUBLISHING
GROUP WISHES THOSE WHO CELEBRATE, A HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
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