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I Think This Week Happened and the Next One Is Coming

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Charles Yallowitz

When this goes live, I’ll still be in the big day of training for my summer job.  I’m writing this Friday night, so I don’t know what I’ve done or about to do.  This is actually the first day of … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Breaking Point

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Charles Yallowitz

This is another clip from The Mercenary Prince.  I’m hoping to release this book before Christmas, but I’m not sure it’ll happen.  Anyway, this clip shows off a new character who makes her debut.  Possibly a second one too.  As a … Continue reading →

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Benefits of Using a School Setting

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Charles Yallowitz

Ever find it strange when a character seems to instinctively know how to do things?  It can really throw a reader off because it comes off as the author desperately getting out of a jam.  That coincidental knowledge can be … Continue reading →

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School Time in a Story

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Charles Yallowitz

A common stage of a hero’s journey is training.  Sometimes this is on the road experience in a ‘hard knocks’ type of thing.  Other times they get some training beforehand, which works for late teen/early twenty characters that are heading … Continue reading →

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Legends of Windemere: Beginning of a Hero Themes

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Charles Yallowitz

Click on Cover Art or this sentence for Amazon Site! This is a lot tougher than I expected.  I can think of several themes in this book and they tend to depend on which characters you’re looking at.  I’m going … Continue reading →

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