LORI WINDSOR MOHR’S DEBUT NOVEL
‘THE ROAD AT MY DOOR’
Full disclosure: Lori Windsor Mohr is my mother. We have the Mother/Son Writer Thing going on. Her debut novel was recently released through a U.K. Publisher (Alfie Dog Press) and is available through Amazon in both print and Kindle. (Click here to buy.) Her novel—“The Road at my Door”—is a harrowing tale of redemption about a teenage girl (Reese Cavanaugh) from a supposedly normal, middleclass American family in the Post WWII era of the 1960s. Growing up in Pacific Palisades
THE TWO PILLARS OF NOVEL STRUCTURE
ACCORDING TO JAMES SCOTT BELL
I want to talk briefly about novel structure because, as a novel editor, I see all kinds of basic issues from the majority of the aspiring writer-clients I work with. There is a wealth of info out there on the web but I wanted to give you a little taste of what makes a solid novel. Because, especially if you write commercial fiction and hope to land an agent and get published, novel structure is incredibly important to pay attention to. The basic concept of the three-act nove
