We have another author joining the MW Press team! Butch Carver is a thriller and horror writer who spent a majority of his life in the Alaskan Bush before returning to the Continental US. Rather than write about his experiences in the Great Outdoors, Butch prefers to tap into the nightmares that have often plagued […]
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Here at MW Press, we are happy to announce the first client of our publishing house! Chad Whybrew is a debuting author who spent his early life in the rural South playing football, chasing girls, and otherwise getting into ridiculous situations, which has given him the ideas needed to write outrageous and somewhat offensive stories
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New year, new us! Well, not really. Same us, new stories! With all the success and excitement we had in 2024, we want to step things up a notch in 2025—in more ways than one. Our planned upcoming releases consist of the following titles: January 2025: Tooth and Nail (commercial release) March 2025: Wingman: College
Well, it finally happened… After years of preparation, we finally released our first book! And a second. And a third. Yeah, it’s been quite a productive year here at MW Press, so we’ve wanted to break down what’s happened during the 2024 calendar year and some of the biggest lessons we’ve learned. April 2024: Release
Chapter One Taran Acker hugged his knees to his chest as he hid in the closet. Flinching at the repeated sound of fists hitting flesh just beyond the door, he rocked back and forth beneath the closet shelves filled with sacks of grain and empty bottles of booze. Eventually, the violence ceased. “You threw out
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Excerpt from SCION: A Science Fiction Short Story A NASA lander searches for revenge against its creators in the deserts of Mars… A spark of power ignites the Promethean flame within me, and I become self-aware. Sentient. Sapient. At first, I feel… nothing. My body has no sensory nerves. Despite being held aloft by ropes,
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Whenever we stare at that first blank page of a new manuscript, we ask ourselves a question, What opening scene would make me interested in reading the book? No, this isn’t rhetorical. It’s a genuine question. For us, a great opening scene is a combination of three things: · A short, choppy first sentence to
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It’s a lot like the Golden Rule—whoever has the gold makes the rules. Whoever has the outline writes the story. As you have probably realized, the outline is the last step in the, ahem, outlining process. Before we begin writing the outline, there are a few questions that we want to ask ourselves to ensure
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Ah, yes. A far better alternative to the birds and the bees. Both the pants and the plans refer to the type of writer you are and can be. Pant-style writers fly by the seat of their pants, and Plan-style writers plan their work. Better put, Pantsers don’t outline, while Planners do. How Planners outline
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Everybody dies! Well, not all of them. #thanksmarkruffalo But yes, this is the part of the outlining process where you spoil the story by writing out the beginning and ending scenes. Keep in mind that these scenes do not have to be full chapters. Really, they could be only half-a-page long, provided that the scene
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