This is K.M. Island and you're listening to the 344th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

This Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, I'll be hosting noted publishing and marketing consultant Mike Balmacita in a free webinar entitled

self-publish a best-selling book. Mike is a sought-after consultant to six and seven-figure Kindle authors and publishers

and he's going to share with us his easy three-step method to self-publishing

a best-selling book by next month. We're going to be talking about

how to publish a best-selling Kindle book, how to generate monthly passive income

from your writing, and lots more. So I hope you'll be able to join us for the free webinar this Wednesday,

June 29th at 7 PM Eastern Day lifetime.

The latest post on my blog is How Not to Write Satisfying Action Scenes.

Turns out the secret to Great Action Scenes isn't the action. Learn why Marvel's The Incredible Hulk's action

failed and how to make readers adore your conflict. This is the second in this

series of the do's and don'ts of storytelling

according to Marvel which you can find on my site at helping writers become

authors.com. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Five Secrets of Complex Supporting Characters.

Supporting Characters don't get nearly enough love. We come up with amazing protagonists who do amazing things,

and we labor to give them solid and complicated character acts.

But after all that work on the story's forerunner, what happens to the supporting

characters? Too often they're an afterthought. Of course, your protagonist needs a dad, a

best friend, a little old neighbor lady, so you stick

them into the story.

You can see them already, right?

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