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Nancy Sakaduski has published 100+ articles and 24 books. She co-wrote Scientific English with Robert A. Day. Most recently, she authored How to Write Winning Short Stories, which is based on her experiences running the Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest and working with dozens of writers to perfect their short stories.

Nancy has a B.A. in Communications from the University of Maryland and an Executive M.B.A. from Loyola College. She currently resides in Chadds Ford, PA, and Lewes, DE.

In 2012 she founded Cat & Mouse Press (http://catandmousepress.com), a small regional publishing company, to create books that are engaging, entertaining, or just plain fun. The company publishes short story anthologies, beach reads, children's books, and ...more

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	How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication 4.02 avg rating — 93 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
	Beach Pulp: Amazing Stories set in Rehoboth, Bethany, Cape May, Lewes, Ocean City, and Other Beach Towns 4.24 avg rating — 17 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
	Beach Love: Stories of Romance from Bethany Beach, Cape May, Fenwick Island, Lewes, Ocean City, and Rehoboth Beach by Nancy Sakaduski (Goodreads Author), Cindy Cavett (Editor), Rae Tyson 3.65 avg rating — 17 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
	The Beach House 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 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
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	Beach Days 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Beach Nights by Nancy Sakaduski (Goodreads Author), Kathleen Martens (Goodreads Author), Kristin Norton 4.75 avg rating — 8 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
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	Sandy Paws: Dogs and Cats on Delmarva by Nancy Sakaduski (Goodreads Author) (Editor), D.M. Domosea (Goodreads Author), Adrianne C. Lasker 4.38 avg rating — 8 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

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“Anne Leigh Parrish, fiction editor for Eclectica magazine, says, “A story is not a nice description of how things are. It’s not a sensibility, or a mood. While those elements surely contribute to a story, a story itself is a narrative where there must be a change in the reader’s understanding of the events, or in the protagonist’s understanding. You leave a story seeing something you didn’t see at the outset, something that makes sense of what’s come before.”
― Nancy Sakaduski, How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication

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“Most short fiction falls into one of three categories: stories of conflict, stories of decision, or stories of discovery…The story of conflict is the record of a goal-motivated fight.”
― Nancy Sakaduski, How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication

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“Don’t tell me the moon is shining. Show me moonlight reflected on broken glass. –Anton Chekov”
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