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The Four Elements of Fiction: Character, Setting, Situation, and Theme is a detailed discussion about the importance of how the four elements of fiction must relate to one another in order to produce a page-turner. This book will provide the reader with the guidelines to help him or her understand how the creative mind can take an idea and effectively turn it into a story that will flow logically from beginning through the middle and to a satisfying end. The techniques of character development, strong dialogue, viewpoint and point of view, description are only a few of the items discussed in detail. The book also provides a character bio-sketch form for those writers who need the organizational help to design effective characters including the protagonist and the antagonist.

Just as recently divorced LIndsey Gale begins to bring balance into her personal life, she discovers that her new role as publisher of the Greensboro Press is anything but stable. Lindsey is asked to investigate the death of a friend who had been staying at The Writers' Bloc, a writers' retreat located on Maryland's rustic Eastern Shore. Lindsey reluctantly take on the assignment and soon finds herself face to face with the retreat's reclusive owner and noted author, Odius Clay. With the help of Conrad Trent, her managing editor and closest confidant, she digs into the background of the retreat, Odius Clay, and the eclectic group of residents and attendees and soon finds herself facing a publisher's greatest nightmare - plagiarism peppered with a dash of murder.

Midway through the brisk fall of 1941, Morris and Sadie Goldstein begin to cultivate a small community of tenants in their six-flat brownstone. As World War II descends, this group has no options but to cling to one another. The fate of each tenant depends on the relationships they develop as they grapple with the outcomes of war. The Brownstone is a story of compassion, grief, love, and understanding shared by this small, eclectic community.

The years immediately following World War II showed the world that America had come into its own and was a force to be reckoned with. For those of us who entered the world at this time, the mantle was passed to us with the responsibility to drive America forward. And yet it was also still a time of innocence; a time when children were allowed to be children; when we grew from innocence to adulthood with the help and direction of our parents, but we were charged with taking on the leadership that was cast upon us.

Assuring successful author/editor collaborations depends on meeting expectations regarding process, changes, money, contracts, deadlines, communications and trust. This EFA Booklet, written for both freelance editors and writers who plan to hire an editor, highlights how to set up expectations so they can be met by both parties in the relationship.