Willow’s trip across the pond to sell the property and salvage her company soon becomes its own adventure: the house, once owned by grandparents she never met, needs major work. Add in a business advisor who drained her finances, and Willow is out of options-until she learns she’s inherited a house in England’s most picturesque locale, The Cotswolds.
Now the scandal of getting caught on camera binging on pizza, and the internet-wide mocking of her new curves, may destroy her career. Willow Armstrong, the once-famous “Queen of Weight Loss” and president of Pound Busters, succumbed to stress eating after her divorce. For more information, including where to find her books and published essays, please visit sharonstruth.The breathtaking promise of the English countryside can lift even the heaviest spirits. She writes from the friendliest place she’s ever lived, Bethel, Connecticut.
When she’s not writing, she and her husband happily sip their way through the scenic towns of the Connecticut Wine Trail, travel the world, and enjoy spending time with their precious dogs and two grown daughters. Her debut novel, The Hourglass, was a finalist in the National Readers’ Choice Awards for Best First Book. She’s the author of the popular Blue Moon Lake Novels (Kensington) and Sweet Life Novels (Kensington), romantic women’s fiction that includes Willow’s Way, a Readers’ Favorite Book Award Winner. Sharon Struth believes you’re never too old to pursue a dream. Combine these elements and turn your manuscript from peaceful to page-turning in no time at all! We’ll also take a look at why strong story goals and conflict making that goal unattainable keep the reader engaged. This course will talk about strong starting hooks, why chapter/scene pace matters, and where to end a scene/chapter so the reader needs to turn the page. An author’s goal should be to write a book so compelling, the reader schleps into work blurry-eyed the next day because they couldn’t put your book down the night before.ĭoing this is no easy task, but it’s not impossible if you focus on some key elements. Even if you snag them with a catchy start, if the world you’ve built starts to slow down on page two and continues to drag, you can wave goodbye to a sale or an offer for representation. In the first thirty seconds after a reader or agent/editor picks up your story, they’ll make a decision to keep reading or move on to something else. The phrase is cliché, but something to think about as you write your manuscript.
You only get one chance to make a great first impression…. Hook ’em Dano: How to write a strong opening line, well-paced middle, and enticing ending chapterįREE for all members and those who join RWF before the workshop.
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