Click on the book to order or click on the author’s name to go to their website. Young adult historical fiction is listed at the bottom.
Historical Fiction
Category: Resource Tips
Romance
Sweet Romance by Shirley McCann
Romantic Comedy by Ann Stang
Western Romance by Sharon Kizziah-Holmes and Judy Tarbox
Mafia and Inconvenient Romance by Savanna Golden
Sweet Romance by Marilyn K. Smith and Dorothy Davidson
….MORE COMING
Author Expo Day -April 29, 2025
Each year, the Christian County Library in Nixa presents an Author Expo Day featuring local authors. Many of the Springfield Writers’ Guild members attended and showcased their books.
Shown l-r:
Susan Keene, Sharon Kizziah-Holmes, Paula Moore, Michelle Underwood, JJ Renek, LaDonna Greiner, Linda Harper, Jan Bailey, Jaime Cole, Shirley McCann, Chuck Robertson, Lynn Combs.
Plotting: Knowing Which Scenes to Include
How do writers know which scenes to include and which ones to summarize?
Jody Hedlund, best-selling author of over a dozen YA medieval novels, offers a few great tips on writing scenes. She says:
“Obviously we can’t write every scene that takes place over the time period of our books which usually spans weeks or months. We have to narrow down how much of our story and character’s lives we reveal on the page. That means we often have to summarize events or leave them out entirely with the assumption that our readers will piece everything together without having to know every detail.
There’s not a hard, fast rule or formula for which scenes to write out in detail and which ones to summarize, but there are a few principles we can keep in mind when choosing scenes to include in our books…
Source: jodyhedlund.blogspot.com
80th Anniversary/Christmas Party
2023 was the 80th anniversary of the Springfield Writers Guild. What an amazing feat for a writers’ group to carry on that many years! We’ve gone through many presidents and interesting times. (See the history to read more).
PAST PRESIDENTS & MORE
springfieldwritersguild.org 