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Crafting a Page-Turning Plot

Instructor: Bestselling Author Ezra Barany. A lot of authors feel that crafting a page-turning plot is a challenging task that they wish they could avoid, but the reality is without plot you don't have a story. If you just follow a few time-tested, proven methods, your fiction is bound to be hard to put down and your readers will be compelled to stay up late to finish YOUR book.


In this 4-week email course you will:


· Learn tricks to make the story more compelling 


· Uncover the craft of making the pacing more edge-of-your-seat 


· Discover how to use emotions of fear and worry to keep the readers turning the pages


· Turn the plot of your story into a page-turner that readers cannot put down


· Complete a suspenseful short, short story that, if you choose, will be edited by Ezra and published in an ebook compilation on Amazon. (See example at http://www.amazon.com/6-Short-Stories-Suspense-ebook/dp/B006MNIBG4)

WHEN:    Jul 9, 2012 - Aug 5, 2012

COST:   $15 for Premium Members
$25 for Basic Members

Cancellation policy: Registrations are non-refundable except when the workshop is cancelled by Savvy Authors.

REGISTRATION:      *** Registration Closed***

INSTRUCTOR:   
Author and editor, Ezra Barany has been writing ever since he was in grade school where he received honorable mention for one of his haikus. He began editing other writers' work in high school and college and has been editing fiction for over 23 years. Ezra has been the editor for works by Meredith Ironside, William Brasse, Beth Barany and others. He helps authors master the art of creating page-turners. His specialty is in editing the flow of the reading, the pacing of the plot, the intensity of the conflict, and the believability of the characters, all to accomplish a compelling story.

Ezra Barany has also been a high school physics teacher for over 5 years, teaching in a classroom setting, one-on-one, and online webinars. His strength as a teacher is his ability to make complicated concepts simple and easy to understand. 

When it comes to social media, Ezra Barany uses Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Friend Feed, and MySpace on a regular basis to market his highly praised suspense novel The Torah Codes. Ezra has extended his marketing reach as a guest blogger to Hywela Lyn, Brynna Curry, The Book Tree and other sites.

Ezra Barany lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he is working on his next book. He is available for presentations and select readings.

THE TORAH CODES
A reclusive computer programmer, Nathan Yirmorshy, pounds out ones and zeros in the quiet of his home while his landlord secretly watches from behind a two-way mirror. When an intercepted note connects the landlord to a secret society, and a detective ends up dead, Nathan must abandon his home and everything familiar to him, open his heart to a tarot reader he has never met, and trust her with his life--just as the ancient scriptures have foretold.

An appendix of essays by rabbis, doctors, and physicists discuss the themes of the book, specifically, the Bible codes and the Shekinah, the female aspect of God. Read the first chapter at http://www.facebook.com/TheTorahCodes.

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