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- - - Rose Haldane, journalist and identity detective, reunites the people lost through adoption. The stories you don’t see on television shows. The difficult cases. The people who cannot be found, who are thought lost forever. And each new challenge makes Rose re-live her own adoption story, each birth mother and father, adopted child, and adoptive parent she talks to, reminds her of her own birth mother Kate. Each book in the ‘Identity Detective’ series considers the viewpoint of one person trapped in this horrible dilemma. In the first book of the series, Ignoring Gravity, it is Rose’s experience we follow as an adult discovering she was adopted as a baby. Connectedness is the story of a birth mother, her hopes and anxieties, her guilt and fear, and her longing to see her baby again. Sweet Joy, the third novel, will tell the story of a foundling, a baby abandoned, and how the now elderly woman is desperate to know her story before it is too late. Who is Rose Haldane? Watch the Series Trailer…
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Writing tips: learn from the masters

Learn from the masters. Take an author you know and love, and aim to emulate. Analyse the way they write by de-constructing the plot and characters of a novel. I’ve done this with AS Byatt’s Possession and John Grisham’s The Firm. Patterns and techniques become evident. Apply what you learn to your own writing.

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Miranda of Violet's Veg*n e-Comics May 7, 2015 at 9:27 am

Oo that sounds like fun! 🙂 I have seen pictures of copies of books which got made into films, like The Shining; I liked the way that they had all these notes and highlighted parts, it’s really fascinating. I will have to try what you say. 🙂
- sandradan1 May 7, 2015 at 3:05 pm
  
  It’s really worth the time, Miranda, just choose the novel carefully. 🙂 SD
  - Miranda of Violet's Veg*n e-Comics May 8, 2015 at 1:02 pm
    
    I shall give it some thought 🙂
    - sandradan1 May 8, 2015 at 2:07 pm
      
      🙂 SD

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