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The book is almost 500 pages long, and that’s after I trimmed the introductory material from 70 pages to 20. It covers 33 tropes and hopefully includes a few you’ve been dying to play with in your writing. A complete list of tropes in the book is below. Happy writing and let me know what […]

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Howdy gang! Just wanted to give you a quick update on the 4th romance trope book. I got sidetracked two months ago by a producer asking me to develop a project for novel and TV/film that I just couldn’t say no to. I then spent a week in Seattle at the Pacific Northwest Writers Association […]

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For October, Cindy Dees is giving away a $20 Amazon gift card plus winner's choice of e-copy of paper copy of SECOND SHOT to one winner.

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As I opened my computer this morning to go back to work on the Neighbor from Hell trope (a super fun one to write by the way), I saw my first ever file of notes on writing a trope book, dated five years ago this week. This whole project is the brain child of my […]

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The way I hear it, there's a feeding frenzy of production companies stealing one another's staffs and crews as everyone tries to get rolling again...

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What takes so long to make a movie or TV show once the book is optioned and sold? It seems like it takes forever once someone says there’s going to be a movie for it to finally come out?

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What are some (surprising) things I’ve learned about the TV/film industry since this whole journey of selling a TV show started? Who actually makes the sale happen?

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AUTHOR NOTES ON MEDUSA’S SHEIKH So there’s a story to how this book came about… I read a book, which shall remain nameless, from my publisher that included a belly dancer in it…and the book was a terrible and inaccurate depiction of Middle Eastern dance. I should probably confess that I studied this gorgeous and ancient dance form for many years and was a professional Middle Eastern dancer for years. At any rate, I complained about it to some rather senior executives of my publisher at a cocktail party, and while I was at it, I complained about the depiction of modern sheikhs…

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So what about my book? What about it made it sell for a TV show? What is its hook (and what’s a hook)? What is SECOND SHOT’s logline (and what’s a logline)?

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