Bøger af Della Galton

The second book in the toolshed series and originally written as a series for Writers' Forum Magazine, this snappy no nonsense guide has been expanded, amended and updated. Using examples from her own published work, Della Galton explains how to make the leap from writing short stories to writing a full length novel. Subjects covered include: How do you know if you have a big enough idea? How exactly does a short story character differ from a character in a novel? Will your plot go the distance? What should be on your first page? Della Galton is a working writer and agony aunt for Writers' Forum. She has had three novels and over 1000 short stories published.

Jo and Elaine are chalk and cheese but they made a pact to be best friends for ever. Even when Jo becomes a single mother, and Elaine becomes a career girl, the two are closer than ever. Then tragedy strikes, and their pact is put to the ultimate test; Jo finds herself forced to choose between doing "the right thing", and keeping a lifelong promise.

Tom Lockey should be on a beach holiday with his son, but thanks to his ex-wife he's spending it alone. Then Josh and his bike go missing, and whilst Tom frantically scours the Dorset coastline, the police suspect foul play - and Tom is their number one suspect. Meanwhile Rowena Jackson and her daughter, Amy, are in the neighbouring caravan. But little Amy isn't all she seems, and when she glimpses a crying boy with a mark on his face, is she dreaming, or is she seeing Josh?

Life should be idyllic, and it pretty much is for Sarah-Jane. Marriage to Tom is wonderful, even if he is hardly ever home. And lots of people have catastrophic fall-outs with their sister, don't they? They're bound to make it up some day. Just not right now, OK! And as for her drinking, yes it's true, she occasionally has one glass of wine too many, but everyone does that. It's hardly a massive problem, is it? Her best friend, Tanya, has much worse problems. Sarah-Jane's determined to help her out with them - just as soon as she's convinced Kit, the very nice man at the addiction clinic, that she's perfectly fine. She is perfectly fine, isn't she?

FACTS ABOUT ALCOHOLISM There are approximately one hundred million alcoholics in the world today. Ninety-nine million will die of the disease. Sarah-Jane hasn't had a drink for four and a half years. That makes her one in a million So why isn't life idyllic for Sarah-Jane? Her waitress job barely covers her rent. Her sponsor's skipped off on a world cruise and abandoned her. And the girl she's trying to save from a life of drunkenness is totally mad. Boy does she need a drink. But she can't have one - can she?

Recently divorced from her control freak husband, Wendy needs a way to celebrate her newly single status. She rediscovers a wish list of ten 'life changing experiences' she once challenged herself to do before she turned 40. With the help of best friend Annette, and the milestone birthday just three weeks away, how many of the items can she actually achieve - and will they enable her to move on? A light-hearted comedy that'll make you wonder whether dying your hair pink isn't such a bad idea after all.