Roman Circus - humorous romantic suspense novel

Just got a GREAT review for my humorous romantic suspense novel, Roman Circus!

"When Harmony Jane Jones loses her cat, her car, her job and her boyfriend, all within the space of a week, she does what any 20-something woman would do. She runs away and joins the circus."

Check it out!

http://www.manicreaders.com/index.cfm?disp=reviews&bookid=6913

New Mystery Writing book!

Dying to write a mystery novel but not sure how to start? How to Write a Mystery is the book for you. With over 30 years of experience in writing and publishing mysteries, Carlene has set up some simple steps to get you started and keep you going until you type, “the end.” Chapter one of How to Write a Mystery shows how you start to write using an Intriguing beginning to draw your reader in. Chapter two of How to Write a Mystery shows you proper manuscript format to get you started. Chapter Three gives you the building blocks of your novel. Chapter Four shows you how to plan your book, including an inciting incident, plot points and that all important dark moment. Chapter Five goes over character development and how to make your people come alive on the page. Chapter six of covers the five senses and how to use them to enrich your story. Chapter seven of How to Write a Mystery covers editing, rewriting and everything it takes to get your novel ready for market.

Available at: www.amazon.com

Fun new short story! If you like Stephen King - you'll love this!

Before I started writing mysteries....and romance.....and humor.....and, well, everything, I wrote horror stories! I know, I know and I look like such a nice lady! Anyhow, I just posted my favorite, Like Magic, on amazon. I tried to make it FREE but the gremlins wouldn't let me! Good ahead, spend a buck and read my story. I like you'll like it!!!   Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Like+Magic+by+Carlene+Rae+Dater

Please come back and leave a comment to let me know how you liked (LOVED) it!

How to get published

If you live in the Coos Bay/North Bend, Oregon area, I want to let you know, I'll be teaching my, "Write it, Get it Published" class at SWOCC (Southwest Oregon Community College) again starting September 24th, 2012. The class runs five weeks, two hours a night and only costs $50.00! Such a deal. Here's a link:

http://www.socc.edu/communityed/

I've taught the class twice before and am happy to say students from both classes wrote articles and short stories that they then had them published! Of course my main thrust is novel writing because so far in my career, I have published nine novels and I have two more coming out early in 2013. For a list of all my books and their publishers go to my website: www.carlenedater.com. I've published mysteries, humorous mysteries, romance, humorous romance, romantic suspense, paranormal romantic suspense,and some erotic novellas - just to spice things up. 

So, think about joining the class - we have a lot of fun and, who knows, you might just become a published author yourself one day.