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    When Love Awaits

    By Johanna Lindsey

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    Once Lady Leonie cursed 'the Black Wolf'—handsome Rolfe d'Ambert, the mercenary Lord of Kempston—for his bloody deeds and cruelty to the local peasants. Now she must marry the magnificent blackguard to bring peace to the land.

    Young, innocent, and possessing a rare and exquisite beauty, Leonie would be a prize for any man—yet Rolfe seeks the match solely for revenge. But her sensuous kiss ignites within him the fiery need to claim her—and an irresistible desire to unite their warring hearts in glorious love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 14, 2011
    ISBN9780062106735
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    Johanna Lindsey

    Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) was world-renowned for her “mastery of historical romance” (Entertainment Weekly), with more than sixty million copies of her novels sold. She was the author of nearly sixty nationally bestselling novels, many of which reached the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list. 

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    • 3/5
      This was good, but didn't quite live up to the glowing reviews I've read.
    • 5/5
      This book was so good I have passed it along to other new writers and it has been very helpful. There is more to editing than grammar and this book points that out quite well.
    • 5/5
      I liked this book a lot. Editing is *really* difficult for me and this book had a ton of good tips about how to do it.
    • 1/5
      A great novel indeed. I really enjoyed every bit of it!
    • 5/5
      Excellent book for fine tuning your craft. It was recommended by an agent.
    • 5/5
      I seriously love this book. I feel like it's improved my writing tenfold in the few months since I've finished it.
    • 5/5
      If its Johanna Lindsay it must be great! I wish she writes new stories or new writers write like her.I read all her books and I definitely longs for new ones or related new ones. Missing her kind of writing.Do you guys have any recommendation that writes like her? Thanks
    • 4/5
      great
    • 2/5
      The things that happened in this book annoyed me greatly but still worth reading
    • 5/5
      awesome
    • 4/5
      This was the second book I did as a group read with a couple other authors. I think I'd actually read the first edition years ago (and the second edition this go-round). Self-Editing for Fiction Writers covers a good range of basics along with somewhat more advanced techniques, making it a good investment in that you can return to it every now and again and possibly take something new from it each time. Solid advice, easy to understand. The book does cover line-editing-level stuff much more than developmental editing, so I would recommend it for authors who are nearing their final draft, after they've finished fixing any structural/character development/etc. issues—when they're ready to start polishing.
    • 3/5
      Some general principles and things to consider when writing and editing. Pretty standard fare for this kind of book. Includes literary examples. It has exercises at the ends of the chapters and could be easily used as a text book for a writing class.
    • 5/5
      This is an objective, goal oriented book for revising your manuscript. The checklists are quite useful and the explanations surely helpful. I recommend it as revision reference.
    • 3/5
      Not a bad book, was not so logical for me though.
    • 4/5
      There's some very useful information in this book. What I like about this book is that it gives lots of examples. It's a 'look and see' type of book, rather than waffling on about nothing. It has lots of clips from books and uses these to illustrate various points. Some of the points take a bit of seeing, but perseverance is key. Most of it is straight forward and cunning.

      I do wish they had printed it on some decent paper so that the pages didn't flop about like a dead fish when you are trying to read it, but that cannot really be blamed on the authors or editors.

      This is the second time I've read this book. It was worth going over the basics again, several years after the first reading. In a strange twist, the paper seems to have improved with age. It no longer flops about.

    • 3/5
      Which is more important for the budding writer — writing or re-writing? Are they even separable? Certainly the catalyst for the latter and spur to improved execution of the former is self-editing: reading over what you have written and finding ways to improve it. In this breezy survey of things to look for when you self-edit, the two authors gently introduce such subjects as “Show and Tell,” “Point of View,” “Dialogue Mechanics,” and “Voice.” Numerous exemplars from published novels are used as well as submissions from their own workshops which demonstrate the flaws. Each chapter ends with a checklist of the important points covered therein and a few exercises for the reader to put their new editing skills to the test.I suppose each fiction writer will find a different chapter or set of chapters that will be of most use. For me, the advice found in the early chapters - “Resist the Urge to Explain,” or RUE for short - was definitely on the mark. Likewise the frequent recommendation to read your writing aloud in order to hear its flaws is apt. I also found the penultimate chapter, “Sophistication,” which concentrates on how to avoid the tired phraseology of hacks to be interesting.This isn’t the last book on editing that you are likely to read, but it may be a useful one.
    • 3/5
      As I read this book, I didn't think it would be useful. Then I got to the second half, and it got a lot better. The first discusses a lot of standards that orange-green belt writers should already know. Like "showing vs. telling" and point of view. If you've read the good writing books like "On Writing", "Characters and Viewpoint", and "Dare to Be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction", then you know those basics. However, some of the later tips do come in handy for reaching that blue belt, like proportion, unsophisticated prose, and the writing exercises. You'd be amazed how often you write something, know in the back of your head that it's stupid, but still fail to fully recognize it. That's why I still check out the writing books from time to time, even though I now see that "On Writing", the first and basically my bible, has screwed me up somewhat.It's certainly better than "Bird by Bird".
    • 3/5
      Pretty basic stuff, but sound advice.
    • 5/5
      I had a friend who was in a doctorate program in writing and helped edit their journal. She told me her professors said that if a writer could only have one writing book on their shelves, this should be it. Renni Browne and and Dave King have worked for decades as an editors and literary agents. That makes their input as valuable as any "name" author--because they've been gatekeepers--and know just what can get your manuscript tossed. There are chapters as such basic precepts as: Show and Tell, Characterization and Exposition, Point of View, Dialogue Mechanics, Voice and more--all very lucid and useful to pour over when going through a manuscript.
    • 4/5
      I think this will be a very practical book, a book from which I will take notes, a book I'll turn to for practice and reminders. It's an open door sort of book, the kind that welcomes you to come in and get comfortable while you listen to the information.

      This is NOT a read-once-know-all sort of book. No, this one should sit under the elbow while writing and editing. It should have post-it flags, highlighting, notes in the margin. It's a work book, a book that teaches by making you do.

      The hardest part of reading this book was in not rushing to my current manuscript to apply the thing I'd just read before I finished reading the whole book.
    • 4/5
      This is an excellent resource when you are first learning to edit your own stuff. For a modest price, this book leads you through the most egregious errors and uses examples from popular fiction most people are aware of to show what is good and bad. The only thing which kept me from giving it a 5th star is this advice will only get your manuscript ready to put on a real editors desk. In this age of self-publishing, you will need to add another layer of editing if you can't afford to pay an outside editor to make your book ready for the reader. For the miniscule sum to purchase this book, it was money well spent.
    • 5/5
      There are lots of writing craft books around, but this one has an excellent reputation among writer groups. I can see why. It's a thorough, yet not overwhelming, primer on how to look at your own work with critical eyes and edit the living daylights out of it. The authors emphasize that you shouldn't follow their prescriptions too rigidly (as, so they say, people tended to do with the first edition of this book) and thus stay on the fine line between allowing writers the freedom they need to be creative, and preventing them from making the most obvious mistakes that all--ALL--writers make, especially in the formative years of their writing. A shortish book with exercises that I didn't feel obliged to do before I moved onto the next section, lots of humor, and some gently funny cartoons to break up the text. Nice
    • 5/5
      Writing fiction isn't hard, but writing good fiction is. Having a writing coach or teacher is the best way to go, but sometimes that's not possible. Self-editing is the best book on the market for those learning the craft. Read it as you as write. And then read it again. And again. The Show, Don't Tell aspect is critical to good fiction and probably one of the most difficult to apply on your own, but the chapter is easy to understand with great examples at the end of the book. Besides learning the nuances of good fiction, the book helps you understand the proper usage of beats, adverbs, dialog and such. It's well worth the effort.
    • 4/5
      A good reference with various techniques for refining your prose. Includes lucid discussions of showing vs. telling, and an excellent explanation of why adverbs don't help your fiction. I don't agree with every point the writers make about style, but all of the tactics they suggest are helpful. The book makes a lot of how helpful reading your work out loud can be, and it's quite right.
    • 5/5
      Should be set next to Strunk & White in the library of useful writing books.
    • 5/5
      Self-Editing for Fiction Writers is one of my top five favorite writing books. Full of writing examples, exercises and techniques. Will benefit most writers from beginner to advanced. A must-have for any writer's reference library.
    • 5/5
      An excellent tool for editing. I'd recommend it to anyone.
    • 3/5
      There was a lot of useful information in here, and the checklists will be great to keep on hand during revisions. I thought the examples throughout were helpful and there were only occasional statements that I didn’t quite agree with (e.g., their assertion that “only editors and reviewers really notice” things like dialogue that says one thing accompanied by explanation that says something different [p. 85:]—that was especially jarring, actually, because of all the emphasis they placed on not insulting your reader by underestimating his intelligence. I know what they meant, I think, but the assertion still bugged me. But obviously that’s just a tiny thing.). I wasn’t sure what to make of the illustrations throughout, though. I didn’t understand their purpose. They weren’t funny, and in most cases the art seemed to have little if anything to do with the captions. They seemed inserted purely to break up the text, and I think they would have been better left out or replaced with something more relevant.
    • 4/5
      This is the book you're going to need by your side as you start to edit. This is not the book you want beside you when you write your first draft. If you did that, you'd soon end up in the corner curled up the fetal position.This writing reference will soon prove invaluable to you. You're not going to catch everything on the first read through, and you're certainly not going to end up using everything. At least, I know I probably won't.Be warned: This book will show you you are not as good as you thought, but helps you be as good as you should be.
    • 4/5
      Having just finished another first draft of a novel, it was time to pull Self-Editing off the shelf for my third read of this trusty book.That I have it on my shelf and have reread it so many times is a testament to something, but what? it is truth of what we write. Through many examples, and exercises, which I will admit to passing on, the authors give us guidance in what we know to be on the lookout for. Things that we forget as we write and crank out that draft, letting our creativity spew before the other half of the mind takes over.They are not addressing our creative process, but our thinking process where we use our consciousness to refine what we first wrote. Here they talk to us about scenes, beats, dialogue. Tools that we as writers should look at it. Very often I have complex conversations between multiple characters and the authors address where I have problems, just as i know I have those problems.Its use is wihtout question. In this day of less editors of your work, you have to write a polished piece. This is a help.