New Releases by Louise Plummer

You Are Boring addresses every new writer''s greatest fear: that she has nothing worth writing about, that her life is boring. With wit and wisdom, Louise Plummer and Ann Cannon, teachers and award-winning writers, guide you through 25 exercises of writing about your life. They write and then you write. They show you fast writing, then you try fast writing. They write about a first memory, then you write about a first memory. Soon you''ll become comfortable with writing about your life even if you''ve never written before. And you''ll discover that you are unique and that your life isn''t boring after all.

MIRA KENT IS nearing her 16th birthday and wants to know more about a father she doesn''t remember. Her mother tells her she has all his good qualities, but isn''t specific. With nothing but a photo of her father, Mira wants more. She writes him imaginary notes: Daddy, darling, where are you? I need you in my life. Aren''t you curious about me? About school? I have a boyfriend named Dylan. Mom says you both made the decision during the divorce that you wouldn''t be part of my life. It was easier, she says. It hasn''t been easier for me. Look for me, dearest Daddy, and I''ll look for you. I''ll look until I find you.

I’m Kate Bjorkman. I don’t like romance novels. They’re full of three-paragraph kisses describing people’s tongues and spittle. But what do you do if you’ve lived a real romance with a great-looking guy (Richard) and he loves you as much as you love him? I know what I did. I wrote this romance novel about myself, using the Romance Writer’s Phrase Book. I also used stuff my English teach taught me about writing. He said a story must have conflict. No problem there. My life was one big conflict last Christmas. I didn’t make anything up. This is the honest truth and I want truth even in romance. I’m betting you’ll want the same.

A novel about a small-town girl who decides to move to Boston.

After years spent idolizing and championing her long-absent and much-reviled Uncle Willy, seventeen-year-old Susan, a promising artist, meets him by chance in Boston where she is spending the summer and determines, against all advice, to prove her irrevocable love and devotion.