Conda V. Douglas

Want to be a successful author? Write short....

Conflict in your writing draws listeners who want to listen to your work. Conflict keeps them listening. With conflict in every paragraph and sentence, you’ll create writing that sells....

In The Mall Fairies: Exile, the first of the Mall Fairies trilogy, Swoop the fairy lives hidden in the attic of a shopping mall. She loves the safety and ease of living in the fairies' town of High Haven....

If Beth can't figure out a way to seduce her love's picky appetite, she fears her relationship is toast-burnt. She cooks up a plan only to have it boil over....

You will succeed as an author if you learn how to live as successful authors do. Failure stalks writers who focus on only the nuts and bolts, frustrations, or the end results of writing. They miss the most important element—live in the passion and engagement of an author’s life....

In this workbook for writers of all levels, you’ll find oodles of exercises to get you writing, and writing well, right away. All the while you’ll be writing short, quick, and easy....

Poor Kat. Her best friend Debbie insists Kathleen-the-Klutz wear her ugliest bridesmaid's dress to Debbie's wedding. Worse, Kat must bring a plus one....

This is a workbook full of fun, short writing exercises you can immediately use to successfully sell what you write. It’s a master writing class in everything you need to know to succeed at selling your writing, whether long, short, or both....

Writing short works allows you to practice, practice, practice, and then succeed in all your writing endeavors....

In these dozen mystery short stories, you’ll find a newcomer’s ignorance used as a murder weapon, a modern, murderous twist on an O’Henry story, an old Irish myth that haunts a teen in an Idaho ski resort, the myriad ways to die in the desert, and much more....

The gossiping women of the Widows Brigade in Starke, Idaho, love a good scandal - this time it's murder and a stark naked corpse....