Harbor House: Deadly Intentions is LIVE!
Having finished another project, I realized something that I haven’t experienced in over three years.
Did you know that strong, memorable scenes often contain a motif?
Do you use motifs in your stories?
Check out the examples I provide in my blog posting: How to Deepen Your Story With Motifs. They might give you motif ideas for your story.
If you like the movie Out of Africa, there’s a link to a paper I wrote about the different motifs used and how they are used.
I highly recommend from the thriller genre: A Very Good Thing, by J.T. Ellison.
My Goodreads review:
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
I was hooked from the beginning, probably because it was about a writer; but the more I read, the more I became intrigued. I started seeing puzzle pieces where others might not see them, and sure enough, the pieces became exposed to the daylight, and then the pieces boarded a runaway train…
I can’t say enough great things about this book. I have no doubt we’ll see this book as a film, streaming from a popular service in the future.
I give it a 7 out of 5 stars.
Two of my books are now audiobooks! Grendel’s Mother and Love’s New Beginnings.
Available on Amazon only.
Set in Calhoun County, Michigan, Love’s New Beginnings is a sweet romance. Ripped from her New York City home and world-famous career, Charlene finds herself stuck with a partner not of choosing for six months in a Michigan village. Enduring his boorish behavior, she’s enchanted with a precocious little boy, an elderly cat, and rediscovers a forgotten hobby. And then, the news she feared most arrives.
Set in Denmark, Grendel’s Mother is the story of an ordinary girl forced to live an extraordinary life. Sacrificed to the dragon for shaming her community, she’s alone in the wild and discovers special skills that enable her to survive, give birth, and raise a baby—deemed a monster. “Grendel’s Mother is an evocative story of a young woman whose life is shattered by circumstances beyond her control and paints a poignant picture of the history of one of the most infamous monsters of Norse mythology.” – Amazon reader
Come to A.J. Norris’s new blog website where I’m a featured guest today, and read my blog post, “Are You Struggling with a Sagging Middle?”
I’ll give you a clue. The sagging middle is usually the result of a weak Mid-Point plot point. I point out how it’s weak and how to fix it.
Thrilled and honored to have an endorsement by Michael Hauge, author and consultant, my beta testers provided testimonials, too.
Available only on Amazon.
I was just a guest blogger on Kimberly Charleston’s Books Uplight website. “How I Became a Screenwriter.” Check it out!

A new release! Available as a pre-order until September 27, 2023, then goes on sale in all bookstores as a print or as an eBook through Amazon.
Available as a Kindle Unlimited (#KU) book.