Pavarti is an award-winning author of multi-cultural and transgressive literature. She is an artist, wife, mother and number cruncher. Besides penning erotica novels she is also the Director of Marketing at Novel Publicity. Her most recent work, Protecting Portia (A
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Researchers have determined that storytelling benefits humankind. Just the telling or reading of stories helps people learn how to be, well … human. No kidding! Researches did not need to tell that to the people attending the nation’s largest book
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Good writing engages the reader at all possible moments. I’ve been doing some editing lately, and I’ve been focusing on adding more engagement into the prose. Lets look at an example. David panicked when he saw the angry mob. This
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Authors get to choose the perspective of their narrations. There are a few different perspectives to select from, but I’ll mention the three most useful here: first person (I say), third person omniscient (he says and the narrator knows everything),
Read MoreWell-written dialogue is critical for any finely crafted novel. It should entertain, impart vital information, and move a story along. It’s hard to think of a good book that doesn’t have compelling dialogue. Some novels like the Game of Thrones series seem
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Great characters, like interesting fun people, must be multifaceted. It is important that protagonists have some positive traits—maybe they are smart or physically gifted, but those same heroes must also have faults. Perhaps they are overconfident, too trusting, insanely stubborn
Read MoreEveryone has his or her own reasons for writing. I’m pretty sure making a lot of money or becoming famous are long shots. If that’s your motivation, you might want to try the lottery—it’s easier and the odds are about
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It was the 1980s, and Jeffrey Veatch’s girlfriend’s mother offered an invitation to her workplace that would ultimately change the trajectory of Veatch’s creative life. Veatch accompanied his girlfriend Marina to Camp Berwick, at Dyer Island in Maine, where
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The Justin Veatch Fund will award six new music scholarships to graduating high school seniors at Yorktown Town Hall on Thursday, June 16 at 6 p.m. Ossining singer/songwriter K.J. Denhert will deliver the keynote . The program is open to
Read MoreThe Justin Veatch Fund announced on Monday it will award music scholarships to seven graduating high school students from five Westchester County schools in June. The recipients, selected from a competitive field of applicants, are Taylor Setterstrom and Jacob Krauss
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