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How Real Settings Can Become Remarkable Characters in Your Mysteries

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How Real Settings Can Become Remarkable Characters in Your MysteriesWhen setting defines a story, when that story can't be envisioned anywhere else, it becomes a character in your mystery. Learn how to make your setting a breathing, living entity that adds new depth and meaning to the storytelling. See how setting can create a dynamic feel to your writing and affect your characters deep enough to alter their course, change their purpose, build them up and tear them down. Realize how setting, especially if that place

When setting defines a story, when that story can't be envisioned anywhere else, it becomes a character in your mystery. Learn how to make your setting a breathing, living entity that adds new depth and meaning to the storytelling. See how setting can create a dynamic feel to your writing and affect your characters deep enough to alter their course, change their purpose, build them up … and tear them down. Realize how setting, especially if that place exists, can define your character's very existence and give your mystery a richer flavor.

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C. Hope Clark writes two mystery series totaling seven books, all published by Bell Bridge Books. The award-winning Carolina Slade Mysteries and The Edisto Island Mysteries are both set in the author's home state of South Carolina with one emphasizing rural America and the other the dank, dark beauty of the coastal Lowcountry. She is under contract to write two more stories in these series with one being a crossover, where Carolina Slade meets Edisto Island. Hope's short mystery Rich Talk was accepted into Killer Nashville's Cold Blooded mystery anthology. When she's not writing mysteries, she serves as editor of FundsForWriters.com, reaching 35,000 writers each Friday afternoon with her educational newsletter. She speaks at book clubs, libraries, and conferences across the country. Her next mystery comes out in late 2017, the other in the summer of 2018.

Learn more at www.chopeclark.com.

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Bridging the Testaments
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Very scholarly and detailed if you want to know about the in depth history during this time period. Author is very knowledgeable & has done great research to present. He is very thorough! A lot of info. Helps you to truly comprehend all the various dynasties & kings & how they affected the Jews. Great resource book! I study Jewish history and am giving a sermon on the silent years. This helped me to understand this time period and how the various groups such as Sadducee's, Pharisees, Zealots, Hasidic, Essenes, publicans, etc began. That’s what I was searching for… when & how did these groups develop and splinter off? This book has answered these questions for me. Author writes so well & is organized in time periods! Great book!!
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What a Reading Experience!
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If your goal is to better grasp reading the New Testament, this book is the one for you! For me, it changed everything in my understanding of these Jewish groups that suddenly "appear" in Matthew when you turn the page from Malachi. Who were the Saducees? The Pharisees? Where did they come from? The Davidic loyalists? The Herodians? The Essenes? It was brilliantly documented with great charts tying history to specific scripture. It also sheds meaningful light also on the ongoing political intrigue of the middle east. Loved this book and highly recommend it.
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Interesting coverage.
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Interesting recount of the history of Israel itself, and it’s relation to its neighbors during the period between the years covered by the Old and New Testaments.
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Will Dispell The Idea That There Are 400 Silent Years.
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This was a great read, covering the period from 500 BC to the 1st century CE. It's solidly rooted in the Bible and presents a clear, easy-to-follow narrative of a historically complex era. Thanks to this book, I now see the Gospels as a natural continuation of that time. The insights into the power struggles among various sects are particularly compelling, as is the exploration of how compromises were made in the pursuit of influence. A truly worthwhile read!
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Possibly the best book written on this mostly neglected period In religious history.
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