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How to: Writing Dark Fiction When Reality Feels Dystopian

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How to write dark dystopian fiction when reality feels like a dystopia. Including examples from writing the final book in The Fellowship Dystopia series.

Published September 15, 2025
Categorized as About Me, About My Books, And When I Wake, How To's, My Writing Journey, The Fellowship Dystopia Trilogy, Writing Tagged Lynette M. Burrows

Tip of the Hat to America’s First Female Newspaper Publisher

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September is Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month. Learn about a widowed woman pregnant with her seventh child who became a newspaper publisher.

Published September 8, 2025
Categorized as Heroes and Heroines, History, Inspiration and Motivation, Strong Women Tagged first female newspaper publisher, Lynette M. Burrows, women in history

Fantastic Fantasy First Lines to Tickle Your Funny Bone

This month’s fun first line excerpts come from title by authors: Caitlin Rozakis, Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Helen Harper, Jen Lassalle, and Rob Childson.

Published September 1, 2025
Categorized as Fantasy, First Lines, Reading, Science Fiction Tagged fiction, humorous reading, Lynette M. Burrows

Writing How-to: Create Characters Your Readers Love and Hate

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Want to know why readers put down your books? Lynette M. Burrows discusses six common character problems that make readers put books down and how to fix them.

Published August 25, 2025
Categorized as How To's, Writing Tagged how to create characters, how to write, Lynette M. Burrows, unputdownable fiction, writing fiction

Mother Jones: Champion of the American Working Class

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Irish immigrant, Mary Harris, aka Mother Jones, lost everything twice. Undaunted, she became a tireless advocate of the American working class.

Published August 18, 2025
Categorized as Heroes and Heroines, History, Inspiration and Motivation, Strong Women Tagged Lynette M. Burrows, women in history, working class woman

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