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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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Average rating: 3.99 · 12,195 ratings · 1,089 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Shifter 3.84 avg rating — 6,200 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 — 2,397 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 — 1,816 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 — 1,038 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 — 193 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 — 182 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) 4.44 avg rating — 119 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) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 109 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) 4.40 avg rating — 35 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) 4.21 avg rating — 19 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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5 Ways to Convey Emotions in Your Novel

emotions, crafting characters, creating emotion in a scene

By Janice Hardy

Emotions are critical in most novels, but writing them can sometimes be a challenge.
Describing outward emotions can often sound forced because people in the moment feeling those emotions aren't usually thinking, "I just want to stare deeply into his eyes." They're thinking about the color, the way the other person makes their heart race, how time seems to stop when their gazes Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Janice Hardy

Healing Wars (3 books)
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Skill Builders Series (2 books)
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Foundations of Fiction (3 books)
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Revising Your Novel (3 books)
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4.40 avg rating — 164 ratings

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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

tags: doing-the-right-thing

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“I would not bend.
They could not make me Pliable.
My mind was strong.
My mind was mine.”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

tags: mind, strength

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