Sheryl Rhodes Book Cover Design Skinny Dugan’s on Charleston

Skinny Dugan's 4127 W Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV

Have you ever heard the phrase “Don't judge a book by its cover”? Everyone judges books by their covers, it is difficult not to. Humans are very visual and latch on to things that intrigue them. The challenge: summing up a book with one image, which might seem like an impossible feat. Remember this phrase: “A […]

Speaker Johnny Worthen General Meeting Read & Critique Community Lutheran

Community Lutheran Church 3720 E Tropicana Ave, Las Vegas, NV

A Study in Mystery Look behind the curtain of the formulaic, but eternally popular genre: the Mystery Story. Learn about its history, constructions, tropes, types and methods that make modern crime fiction and the everlasting whodunit. We’ll talk story and clues, herrings that are red, interviews, sleuthing, gimmicks and codas. Something to excite your little grey […]

Book Club: Story Genius

Skinny Dugan's 4127 W Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV

December's Book Club selection is Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write Riveting Novel by Lisa Cron. From the publisher: It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, […]

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