This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 320th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast. It's finally here this past Friday on December 4th, my diesel punk slash historical novel, Storming reached its

launch day.

This book was an absolutely wonderful writing experience for me for a number of reasons including the fact that it's set in a historical version of my Western Nebraska hometown

I think it's the most fun story I've written so it makes sense that it was also the most

fun for me to write plus it's got biplanes and sky pirates a

loveably swaggering hero and an eccentric and independent heroine.

The launch week celebration continues through the rest of this week, so I hope that you'll swing by to join in the fun. I'm hosting one of my biggest giveaway drawings ever featuring a brand new Kindle, all of my books in paperback, and Amazon gift card, my favorite espresso and chocolate truffles, a leather journal, and more

for the aviation and steampunk lovers.

So be sure to swing by my site at helping writers become authors.com to join the fun and grab your own copy of the book.

The latest post on my blog is Set Up and Pay pay off the two equally important halves of story

foreshadowing. It talks about these specific factors that make story

foreshadowing tick and how to strengthen your story through a

comprehensive understanding. To find the post visit my site at helping writers

become authors.com and now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Most Common Writing Mistakes

Part 46, Anti-Climactic Endings. Here's how to write books readers will love and yet still end up hating you for.

It's easy. All you have to do is dive bomb out of your own brilliance and into anticlimactic endings.

On some level, anticlimactic endings are pretty self-explanatory.

They're endings with no bang in the end.

They're endings that evoke a yawn from readers instead of a frenzy of page turning.

Instead of being one of the most satisfying parts of the book,

they end up being one of the most disappoint.

And the scariest part of all this, the better readers like the rest of your book, the more it matters

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