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      <image:caption>POP’s Craft Book Club runs three times a year, in-person. Get on the list!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>POP Blog - A Book Club Just For Authors (like you). - Meet Craft Book Club Host Eric Boyd</image:title>
      <image:caption>Eric loves to geek out over writing craft, story ideas, and the last book he read. A lawyer and dad to two teenagers, he writes middle grade and adult horror. Eric has led events and workshops for SCBWI, Shut Up &amp; Write, and the Ubergroup. Eric chooses each craft book club title carefully, aligning it to topics that help the group move their storytelling skills forward. Genres rotate.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Author: Martha Wells Published: 2017 Pages: 150 Group Handout Linked Here Craft Discussion Topics: Voice, unlikeable characters, world building, motivation reaction units (MRUs), and more. A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure. Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>POP Blog - A Book Club Just For Authors (like you). - Sept. 2025 Craft Book Club: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd</image:title>
      <image:caption>Author: Agatha Christie Published: 1926 Pages: 320 Group Handout Linked Here Craft Discussion Topics: Key elements of mystery writing in relation to pacing, surprise, and reveals. Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. The woman he loved had poisoned her first husband, she was being blackmailed, and she had taken her own life. The evening post brought one last fatal scrap of information, but before Roger finished reading the letter, he was stabbed to death.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Author: Michael Mammay Published: 2023 Pages: 384 Group Handout Linked Here Craft Discussion Topics: Breaking down how to use multiple points of view to create a compelling story. Humanity has sent out a colony ship from Earth to a distant planet on a multi-generational journey. But the arrival isn’t going as smoothly as anyone on board wants. The ship’s society has changed over the hundreds of years of the journey, giving rise to various factions who find themselves at cross-purposes, and that’s before adding in the inexplicable natural hostility of the planet itself. Will anyone survive?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Author: Shirley Jackson Published: 1959 Pages: 246 Group Handout Linked Here Craft Discussion Topics: Establishing characters, interiority, building tension, queer subtext. Rumors of psychic disturbances surround Hill House. Is it a ghostly presence, or is the mysterious reputation mundane? Eleanor Vance jumps at the chance to join a group of ghost hunters assessing the strange happenings at the house. But what begins as a simple experiment soon turns into the stuff of nightmares.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Authors featured in The Weight of Almost Knowing span across the state, from Buckeye, Gilbert, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Prescott Valley, Scottsdale, Sun City, Tempe, and Tucson.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>PHX Oasis Press and ASU’s Author-preneurship division produce a quarterly networking event for authors of all genres. Low-pressure, high-value, and snacks!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Choosing to be a writer/author is choosing to understand the nature of rejection, because there will be a lot of it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>WRITTEN BY FELICIA PENZA</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Area writers gather at BLK WRDS, a creative workshop celebrating Black voices.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>POP Blog - Networking Tips for Introverted Authors - If you host an area writing or critique group, or you have access to a message board at a local library, coffee shop, or writerly hangout, click the image at left to download a printable version of our event flyer to share. Thank you so much for helping us get word out about our free programming for area authors!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Some of Candle Chemistry’s 100+ scents to choose from.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Writing is a cyclical process. When you ignore the need for rest and try to push through all the time, it’s like over-farming your land. The soil becomes depleted, and soon, nothing will grow.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Some of Candle Chemistry’s 100+ scents to choose from.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>‘Common Scents’ by Wendy Fernstrum, artist &amp; author. Photo credit, Wendy Fernstrum.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Some of Candle Chemistry’s 100+ scents to choose from.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>You've put blood, sweat, and tears into your first draft. But what do you do now? Read on!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>You've put blood, sweat, and tears into your first draft. But what do you do now? Read on!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The ‘Meet AZ Writer’ series spotlights writers who live in Arizona or who have a strong connection to the area.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Collage created by Leslie Cox as part of a writing workshop on constraints.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I have a haiku on one page of my notebook, and a brief exchange of dialogue for a completely separate potential screenplay right below it. Silence your inner critic and cultivate as many ideas as your brilliant brain can manifest.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tip: Practice mindfulness techniques to quiet your mind before writing. Deep breathing or a short meditation session can help calm thoughts and enhance focus. I personally use music to get centered. Give it a try with this ‘Writer’s Freedom’ Spotify playlist. DM me on Instagram @busyfee if you want a sneak peek at some more of my playlists.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>You have something to write about. We’re here to help you share it. Submissions welcomed!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The only person who can make your writing routine a priority, is you.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>POP Blog - Story Tellers - On June 9th, something spectacular happened. During the official launch of the anthology, the words I had loved on paper took on new power as—one by one— authors read excerpts from their work. Writing requires bravery; reading in front of an audience takes even more courage.</image:title>
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