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Can they ever trust again?

Love’s New Beginnings

When a brutal mugging turns Charlene Walker’s life upside down and inside out, she trusts no one. When Logan Taylor’s wife walked out on him and their newborn son, he swore off all women. Now, he and Charlene have each inherited half of her grandfather’s apple orchard business. Plus, she must live in his house for six months or lose everything. Can they learn to trust each other?

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Can they ever agree?

Tomorrow’s Wish for Love

When Marion’s future is shattered, she returns home to live with her elderly father, where she starts a cleaning business. When John Dalton comes home and finds a strange woman cleaning his apartment, he’s baffled because he didn’t hire her. Later, they clash when she learns he wants to bring havoc and noise to her father’s neighborhood via a kid’s ball field. Despite their differences, they become friends. One special night where she finally admits to herself that she’s fallen in love with John, she overhears him talking. The harsh reality of his words cut her to the core, knowing he wants what she can’t give. Can she ever find happiness in her wishes for the future, let alone tomorrow?

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Grendel’s Mother

An Epic Fantasy  –  Available as eBook, Large Print & regular print from Amazon, Barnes & Noble.

Set in the late-5th, early 6th century in Denmark, Grendel’s Mother is the journey of a girl who dreams of freedom, with a desire to marry the young many she loves, when her father tells her that she’ll wed a widower with young children instead. Then, a horrific event changes her life forever. Pregnant and having brought shame to her family and community, she is sacrificed to the dragon for death, but the dragon saves her instead, unbeknownst to her family and the community.

Grendel’s Mother is the story of social injustice, a girl’s love for Nature where she discovers special skills that enable her to survive, to give birth, and to raise a baby—deemed a monster—in the wild, entirely on her own. From his birth, she battles to keep Grendel safe from himself and, then later, from others who would do him harm.

That child is Grendel, and she is Grendel’s mother.

Read how this story originated and my journey as I wrote the book via my Behind the Scenes blog in Part I and Part II.

 

The Blogs –

 

Behind the Scenes – This blog conveys the thoughts, musing, revelations and even some of the no-so-well-known secrets of one writer’s experiences, revelations, and the gritty truth about the business of writing and what life is like as a writer.

 

Into the Core: One Woman’s Mystic Journey – What happens when a writer discovers she is an intuitive, animal/plant/death empath, medium, and can find lost items?  Trusting her instincts–that little voice within–has been quite the journey.

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Behind the Scenes with Diana Stout & Featured Guests – Learn more about your favorite writers, editors, publishers, producers, and other featured guests.

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Laurel Ridge novella series

Shattered Dreams –  Amazon E-book.  

His voice always had been her undoing. Especially in the dark as they were now.

“I bet you didn’t know that the best way to create heat is to run two people together. Remember?” he asked.

“You mean sticks.”

“You do it your way, I’ll do it mine. Let me show you.”

The first novella in a series of seven: * 7 couples, * 7 conflicts, * 7 stories, * 7 romances

… in a small Georgia community where nothing remains hidden forever.

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Determined Hearts

“There is danger, drama, and sizzling romance in this book, and it kept me turning pages until the end.”

– Amazon reader

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He’s half Indian and a former romance cover model who left New York at the height of his career to restore eagles into his ancestral homeland, wanting no publicity.

She’s a wildlife photojournalist with a deal to get his elusive story in exchange for a promotion, purposely getting herself stuck on his mountain for two weeks.

She’s determined to get the story. He’s determined her photos and story will stay with him. Neither is willing to compromise and poachers threaten to destroy everything—including their new-found feelings of the heart.

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Screenwriter, author . . .

Diana Stout, MFA, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer: screenwriter, author, former English professor, and has served as a contest judge for Hollywood organizations and various organizations’ writing contests (fiction, nonfiction, adult, and teens). From time to time, she serves as a writing coach.

Proving Thomas Wolfe wrong, she’s returned to her small hometown where she had started her writing career with a weekly newspaper column, and where she has now developed her production company, Sharpened Pencils Productions.

She enjoys being surrounded by characters, who all clamor that she write their story. She spends her time calming them, listening, and taking notes as they chatter.

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Welcome!

I created this website as an umbrella for all my writings, my blogs, my announcements, my publications.

It’s a place that leads to other places. I see it as a first step, much like was Dorothy’s journey that began in Munchkinland. While my journey won’t take you to a likeness land of OZ, you will find heart, mindful thoughts, and courageous attempts out of the norm here.

As you’ll see, I’m not a one-lane writer. I had two different agents earlier in my career, both who wanted me to write in one genre. That’s not me. I’m excited about history, time-travel, and love stories, curious about literature and what’s not been said, particularly with women who’ve been denied a voice in literature. I’m enthusiastic about non-fiction, and I’m always wanting to find a way to share what I know so that I can help other writers. I’m a rabid movie fan and love screenwriting, and I like writing plays for shorter stories. And, I’ve even written some poetry. All of these genres and more are projects I’m working on, publishing or posting here.

So many projects, so little time…

Hopefully, you’ll enjoy my journey even if only for a few miles. If you are a fan, hopefully, you’ll sign up for my newsletter, subscribe to my blogs, and if nothing else check out my books at the library or through Amazon Prime and enjoy the read(s). Of course, I’m always thrilled when I hear that you love my writing and have become a fan, willing to write a review or two. Your journey with me is up to you.

I’m just happy to share my passion with you.

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