Holidays: A Suspenseful Pressure Cooker
Using festivals to build tension and stakes in your fiction
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Seasonality, Story, and Strategy in Novel Publishing
Using holidays to align emotion, timing, and visibility in romantic suspense
Boxing Day. To Write or Not to Write?
Taking writing breaks
Writing Prompts for Holiday Stories and Articles
Using the seasons to jumpstart your writing
Please Sir, Why Do Your Ties Have Owls On?
Some Spaniel Wisdom on Artificial Intelligence
Using the Holidays in Your Marketing
From Valentine's to New Year - capturing holidays to help market books
Reawakening Memories
Allowing childhood experiences to colour our writing
From Burns Night To St. Andrew's Day
Check Your Calendar For Inspiration
From Cheer to Chill
How to Add Dark Twists to Holiday Celebrations
Escape It All
Using holiday destinations as welcome settings for a novel
Heat, Holidays and Happy Endings
My Favourite Summer Tropes
Is It Time for Your Characters to Get Away From It All?
Why giving your characters a holiday can work so well.
Seasonal Picture Books as a Strategic Choice
Long-term visibility, discoverability, and reader growth
Using all Four Seasons as Key Plot Points.
How the seasons can work for or against your characters.
Harnessing the Holidays in Your Writing
Guy Fawkes is so much more than fun and fireworks