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WINNING AND LOSING
THE POWER OF SILENCE
NATIONAL BOOK WEEK
FORMAT IS IMPORTANT
PUNCTUATION MATTERS
FORGET ME NOT WINS!
©2010, Vicki Hinze Celebration time! Books-and-Authors.net has named FORGET ME NOT as its 2010 Best Book of the Year, Genre: Faith-Affirming Romantic Thrillers. Yippee!!!...
PSYCHIC DISTANCE
©2003-2010, Vicki Hinze Psychic Distance is the amount of emotional space you put between the reader and the character. Writers use psychic distance to manipulate the intensity...
CYBERSTALKING
Two years ago I wrote the following article. It’s in the Writers’ Library--and, I think, in this blog, but since I’ve received several requests in the last few weeks to run it...
WHAT’S THE VALUE OF HALF A PENNY
WHAT’S THE VALUE OF HALF A PENNY? by Vicki Hinze No one wants to pay more in taxes. Especially those who are clinging to jobs by a thread, whose economy is tourist-based and...
TIP: CHARACTER CREATION
WHAT IS YOUR AUTHOR THEME?
My voice is back, and I’m feeling tons better. I’ve been getting cluster questions about Author Theme, so I did a Mini-post on it. For those to whom this is an unfamiliar term,...
DEADLY TIES BOOK SHORT (TRAILER)
I’ve been without a voice for three days now--sound like a frog in distress--but then received the new book short (trailer) from Troy and Bill at WRITERS-IN-MOTION and suddenly I...
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SPILLING SECRETS AND BREAKING CONFIDENCES By Vicki Hinze Many don’t care why secrets are spilled and confidences...
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Trolls and Online Stalkers—Beware! By Vicki Hinze Writers get all kinds of messages from all kinds of people. ...
A Gift Before Departing
A Gift Before Departing By Vicki Hinze A few years ago I thought I had a life-threatening illness. It turned out to...


