GIRL TALK:  Letters Between Friends

Vicki Hinze writing as Kali Kaye

In the early 1960s, four girls, as part of a 7th grade, nationwide school program, become pen pals.  They have little in common but become lifelong friends who confront together the challenges girls confront in the world they confront them.  Through their letters, we share their lives--their hopes and dreams, triumphs and defeats, joys and sorrows--and for all their differences, we discover that they are stronger and wiser for being friends.

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Captain Tracy Keener, a military attorney, is the by-name request counsel for Captain Adam Burke, a special ops officer accused of leading his team onto an active bombing range during a war-readiness exercise that leads to the death of his entire team.  Burke says he was under direct orders to do what he did.  The honchos deny it.  But when Keener pushes and learns chemical weapons could have been involved, attempts on her life prove there’s more than meets the eye in this case.  There’s murder a conspiracy that goes up the chain of command.  The question is how high--and if she and Burke will survive attempts to silence them long enough to expose the truth. . . once they discover it.

First published in 1999, Duplicity has been updated and is now suitable for most audiences.

Life is magnificent, and it's tough.

For writers and other creative people, sometimes it is worse than tough, particularly when we’re writing to sell—that’s writing in the fast lane. We can lose our way or ourselves, forget who we are and why we are who we are. Limping down an unclear path riddled with obstacles and landmines gets daunting even for the heartiest of writers. We can get muddled and mired and confused—lost—and not even know it… for a time. But eventually we do realize we’re lost, or that we’ve forgotten the reason we started writing in the first place, and then our basic instincts insist we find someone to blame.

And so we do.

We blame our publisher, our editor or agent; our spouse or kids; our in-laws, parents and/or siblings. We blame a cover artist, a copyeditor, a critique partner, a peer--or, if necessary, a rushed salesclerk, a slow-moving driver or a harried postal worker.

We blame any and everyone except us.

But sooner or later, we hit the wall on blaming others and it pops us right between the eyes that we're the ones doing the limping in the fast lane. We’re the ones doing the rationalizing and the forgetting. We’re the ones working hardest at making our lives most tough. And then we're astonished.

Why do we do this us?

More importantly . . .

How can we not do this to us?

Any writer or creative genius that wants a more fulfilled life can have one by:

1. Thinking and making conscious decisions.

2. Avoiding errors others have made because they got lost in the fast lane.

3. Paying attention to those errors and consciously trying to avoid them constructively to preserve the human being in the writer.

4. Exercising a little common sense and summoning your own inner courage.

You supply the courage.

The rest of the above is offered here, beginning with Guidepost #1 in Writing in the Fast Lane.

The answers are in Writing in the Fast Lane.

Second Edition. Updated and Expanded April 2012.

WRITING SHOULD BE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!

"The important thing," says the multi-published author, mentor and writing instructor, Vicki Hinze, "is to love what you're doing."
There is no right or wrong way to write a novel, but Hinze shows you one way--her way--which has helped her write and publish
award-winning, bestselling novels, time after time. In this book, she opens her personal toolbox of methods and guides that you
can alter to fit your own process to get your novel started, written, tested, and submitted.

One Way to Write a Novel explains Hinze's techniques for creating memorable characters, plotting, using plot boards, testing ideas,
avoiding common errors that net rejections, building a novel notebook, formatting manuscripts, writing effective dialogue, pacing,
testing novel focus and much, much more--all in a fun and organized way.

As Hinze says, "Your writing is time from your life and because it is, it should be the time of your life!

1. •Magnolia Leaf Press
   

2. •Feb 2012
   

3. •Digital ISBN:  978-1-93901601-0
   

4. •Trade (Coming Fall 2012)
   

5. •Audio (Coming Spring 2013)
   

* Two Time Maggie Award of Excellence Finalist *

SHE KNOWS A CHILD’S LIFE IS IN DANGER BUT NO ONE BELIEVES HER.

HE KNOWS SHE’S A FRAUD AND IS OUT TO PROVE IT.

THEY SEEK THE TRUTH AND DISCOVER THE TRUTH CAN SET YOU FREE . . . OR KILL YOU

Caron Chalmers is an empath. A mind reader cursed with imaging only victims. She sees what they see, feels what they feel, endures what they endure and has since she was seven. But even with all the sensory perception and insights, sometimes she fails to save victims in time. Sometimes she interprets the signs wrong—and a year ago, she did exactly that. She messed up and a victim died. Caron nearly died with her. Her “gift” shut down.

Now it’s back. There’s another victim—this time a child—and because of the mistake made last year and the shut-down, her police contact, though aware of her many successes, isn’t willing to stake his career on her. Yet he can’t dismiss her and calls in help from a private investigator, Parker Simms: a man with a past as bleak as Caron’s and a specific agenda of his own: proving Caron Chalmers is the fraud he believes her to be.

In a hostile alliance, Caron and Parker seek the truth . . . and discover a labrynth of lies and deceptions that require skills and experience they have and trust they don’t but must somehow find before the child becomes another victim lost. Yet trust never comes without costs, and some are too steep to pay.

The situation grows desperate. Time for the child’s survival grows short . . . and for Caron and Parker, who must live with the consequences of missteps and wrong moves, the unthinkable happens: Stakes that couldn’t get any higher soar.

* First published by Vicki Hinze writing as Victoria Cole in 1993. *