Bøger af Janice Hardy

Do you struggle with creating conflict in your novel? You don't have to. Janice Hardy, award-winning author and founder of the popular writing site, Fiction University, takes you deep inside one of the most important aspects of storytelling--conflict. She'll help you understand what conflict really is, discuss the various aspects of conflict, and reveal why common advice on creating conflict doesn't always work. With in-depth analysis and easy-to-understand examples, Understanding Conflict (And What It Really Means) looks at how to develop and create conflict in your novel. It also explores the things that affect conflict (such as tension), and the misconceptions that confuse and frustrate so many writers. This book will help you: Understand what conflict means and how to use it Tell the difference between external and internal conflicts See why conflict isn't a "one size fits all" solution Determine the type of conflict your story needs Fix lackluster scenes holding your writing back Understanding Conflict (And What It Really Means) is more than just advice on what to do and what not to do-it's a down and dirty road map to how conflict works, designed to help you create the right conflict for whatever genre you're writing. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of what conflict means and the ability to use it to craft strong and compelling fiction.

On the run from beings that can't possibly exist…Grace Harper has spent her life on the run, ever since her mother's unnatural death at the hands of creatures that shouldn't be real. It's hard to believe in vampires, but the things chasing her fit every legend she's ever heard. She dubs them "Pretty Boys," though their beautiful faces hide ugly appetites.For twenty years, she and her father have stayed ahead of them, but for the last five years, their lives have been quiet. Grace has found a home, a life, and people she could even care about. She thinks the nightmare is finally over, but then a man shows up asking questions about a missing woman who's somehow connected to her and her mother. He might also have answers about her mother's death, if she's willing to take a risk.Before she can decide, she's attacked by a Pretty Boy and barely escapes. If the Pretty Boys have found her, it's time to run. Reluctantly, she prepares to abandon her life, possible answers, and the only friend she's ever had.Until they take her father.Fleeing is no longer an option. To find him, she must face ancient secrets, creatures from legend, and an unbelievable truth that will shatter her world. But to save him, Grace has to do the hardest thing of all: stop running and start fighting.

Part fugitive, part hero, fifteen-year-old Nya is barely staying ahead of the Duke's trackers.Wanted for a crime she didn't mean to commit, she risks capture to protect every Taker she can find, determined to prevent the Duke of Baseer from using them in his fiendish experiments. But resolve isn't enough to protect any of them, and Nya soon realizes the only way to keep them all out of the Duke's clutches is to flee Geveg. Unfortunately, the Duke's best tracker has other ideas.Nya finds herself trapped in the last place she ever wanted to be, forced to trust the last people she ever thought she could. More is at stake than just the people of Geveg, and the closer she gets to uncovering the Duke's plan, the more she discovers how critical she is to his victory.To save Geveg, she just might have to save Baseer?if she doesn't destroy it first.

Nya lives in a world of pain.A kidnapped sister, a war-crazy tyrant and the dangerous power she dreads to wield darken her dreams. But Nya must face her ultimate fear - she must unleash her blue fire...Nya makes an epic return to her ravaged city of Geveg in a desperate attempt to find her kidnapped sister, Tali, and to overthrow the evil Duke for ever.As she and her friends makes the perilous journey across occupied land, Nya begins to transcend her orphaned outsider state to embody the face of Gevegian resistance, and a cult of worshippers grows around her.But can Nya live up to the expectations of the Sainters' cult, and will she cave in to the temptation of manipulating them with her new-found powers in her bid to oust the Duke from power?An almighty battle against the Duke and his armies of Undying, awaits her and Nya must face losing more than ever before...