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Janice Hardy

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Janice Hardy is the award-winning author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars, including The Shifter, Blue Fire, and Darkfall from Balzer+Bray/Harper Collins.

She also writes the Grace Harper series for adults under the name, J.T. Hardy.

When she's not writing fiction, she runs the popular writing site Fiction University, and has written multiple books on writing, including Understanding Show, Don't Tell (And Really Getting It), Plotting Your Novel: Ideas and Structure, and the Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft series. ...more

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	The Shifter 3.84 avg rating — 6,175 ratings — published 2009 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Fire 3.98 avg rating — 2,387 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkfall (Healing Wars, #3) 4.06 avg rating — 1,811 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Show, Don't Tell (And Really Getting It) (Skill Builders Series #1) 4.54 avg rating — 995 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure (Foundations of Fiction, #1) 4.37 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Conflict (And What It Really Means) (Skill Builders Series #2) 4.33 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft (Foundations of Fiction, #3) 4.43 avg rating — 115 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Fire (The Healing Wars, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 105 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plotting Your Novel Workbook (Foundations of Fiction, #2) 4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fixing Your Character & Point of View Problems (Revising Your Novel, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Janice Hardy wrote a new blog post How to Edit (or Revise) a Novel Without Feeling Overwhelmed By Janice HardyIf you dread starting a revision, you're not alone. But you can do this.Finishing a draft is a huge accomplishment, and one every writ Read more of this blog post »
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“I mean really if you can't count on your best friend to go to jail with you, what good are they?”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

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“Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were trying to do all along and then there's blood and screaming and death.Doing a bad thing for a good end just sours the good.”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

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“I would not bend.
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My mind was strong.
My mind was mine.”
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