This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to hundred 95th episode of the Helping Writers

Become Authors Podcast. My main non-fiction project this year is putting together

the Creating Character Arts Workbook as a

companion for my book Creating Character Arts. This has been something you all have

been asking me for almost before the main book came out last year.

So I'm happy to announce that we are getting closer to publication all the time.

The workbook is just finishing up interior formatting with the typesetteriter and the good folks at

Demanza are hard at work on the cover. My original goal was to release the workbook

in late August or early September, some personal events in what is turning out to be a very

jam-packed September. May set this back just a little, but I'm hoping to get it

published for you no later than October, so those of you participating in National Novel Writing Month,

will have it available for prep work before November.

The latest post on my blog is 12 tips for writing and releasing collaborative book bundles.

Participating in collaborative book bundles is a fantastic way to expand your platform and your writing opportunities. You can get started with these 12

tips. To read the post visit helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled to 16 ways to make your

setting a character in its own right. Writers here it all the time. You must make your setting a character in its own right. But golly boy

howdy what does that even mean? It means the setting is supposed to come to life to be rich, vibrant, catalytic.

It means the details of the places in your story are supposed to leap off the page and fill readers imagination so fully they can smell the

pastrami sizzling. It means an excellent setting can spell the difference

between a book's success and failure.

Every author wants positive things set of their settings.

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