Genre: Other Genres
About chicklitgurrlLocation: MD Native--working in LA Home Region: Age:913 Website: http://chicklitgurrl.blogspot.com Favorite novels: Beloved, Mrs. Dalloway, The Hours, All Around the Town, The Shadow of the Wind Favorite writers: Bernice McFadden, ZZ Packer, Mary Higgins Clark, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Michael Cunningham...and cannot forget SHAKEY! Favorite music: Depends on the genre of the book... Non-noveling interests: Wow...hard to say...singing, napping, educating our future :-) |
Joined: October 3, 2004 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 2 NaNoWriMo buddies: 25
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Brief Author Bio: Shon Bacon is an author, editor, and educator. As an author, she has published both in the creative and academic arenas. Topics of interest include Christian, romance, and women’s fiction; inspirational non-fiction, screenwriting, and anything related to grammar. As an editor, through her ChickLitGurrl™ brand name, Shon edits manuscripts for individual clients and small publishing houses. Through her Writers Boot Camp, she helps new writers move from story idea to story outline in 28 days. Shon has several online outlets that showcase her love of disseminating information about writing and writers to the public: Blogging in Black [http://www.blogginginblack.com], The Nubian Chronicles [http://www.tnc-magazine.net], ChickLitGurrl™: high on LATTES & WRITING [http://chicklitgurrl.blogspot.com], All the Blog’s a Page [http://alltheblogsapage.blogspot.com], and The World According to ChickLitGurrl™ [http://chicklitgurrl.wordpress.com] (where she talks about her personal writing and editing endeavors). As an educator, Shon is an English Specialist and mass communication instructor at McNeese State University in Louisiana. There, she teaches freshman composition, writing for radio/TV, introduction to mass communication, and media writing. In 2005, 2006, and 2007, she contributed and co-edited three academic textbooks that are currently being used as the official textbooks for freshman composition at the university. Occasionally, she teaches fiction writing and fiction workshop through the university’s continuing education department. |
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Synopsis: Empty Swings & To Catch a Cheat
Doing things differently this year; my focus is on screenplays, so I'm working on two screenplays for NanoWrimo instead of a novel:
Empty Swings - Christian romance
Madison Smith lost her faith a year ago today when a drunk driver killed her husband and twin daughters. Since the tragedy, her life has dismantled. She buries unfulfilled dreams, avoids a mother who wants her to move on and quickly, and most importantly, stops going to church. On the anniversary of the tragedy, Madison stumbles off a bus and falls into the arms of Dr. Derek Gaines, an English professor, a man who knew her husband and who knows a bit about loss and heartache. When her good friend Cara begs her to take a life writing course taught by Derek, the writing assignments and Derek’s growing affections force Madison to deal with the tragedy and with the rebuilding of her faith and her new life as a single woman.
To Catch a Cheat - Contemporary women's fiction
Cheater Investigator Carter Devlin, co-owner of F.A.C.E. (Finding All Cheaters Enterprises) lives by two rules: 1) all cheaters must be exposed and punished, and 2) never, ever fall in love. Playing patsy to her mother’s numerous infidelities as a child helps Carter keep #1 in check. Being assigned to Cheater Number 5302, Kenneth Stevenson, a man with George Clooney looks may lead Carter to break #2.
Carter finds herself falling in heat with Kenneth despite the facts that he’s a possible cheater and his wife, a vocal client during the investigation, happens to look eerily like her. When the investigation leads Carter to believe the wife is the actual cheater, she lets her inhibitions with Kenneth go, only to learn that her best friend and F.A.C.E. co-owner Vince Clark may be in love with her. As she battles her newfound heart over Vince and Kenneth, Carter has to keep one eye on Kenneth’s wife for as the saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
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