Bite-Size Tips: Confessions of a Novella Writer

by Barbara J. Hancock

Barbara J. Hancock has published more than a dozen novellas with Harlequin, Samhain Publishing and Liquid Silver Press. Her stories have been included in print anthologies and digital box sets. Her novellas have been: a Dear Author Recommended Read, featured as a free Harlequin Online read, chosen in competitive submissions calls from top publishers. Last year, Barbara was a mentor during Harlequin’s 2014 So You Think You Can Write? Competition. Bite-Size Tips features tips and inspirational advice on writing satisfying short stories your readers will enjoy. It also includes the novella, A Shadow's Kiss, with author analysis of how the novella illustrates Barbara's tips.

150 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Coming in July 2023, writing as Willa Reece, WILDWOOD MAGIC from Orbit/Redhook. Were the Ross women really witches? A magical tale about coming home when the only home you’ve ever known is gone. Also be sure to check out the first book set in a mystical mountain wood, WILDWOOD WHISPERS.
For Harlequin Nocturne, I've written as Barbara J. Hancock, a Faustian series featuring men who've sold their souls and the women who save them--Brimstone Seduction, Brimstone Bride, and Brimstone Prince. And a fairytale shifter series featuring three Russian wolf shifters-- Legendary Shifter, Legendary Wolf and Legendary Beast. Also a YA Gothic Thriller for Entangled Publishing. When I'm not writing, I'm the adopted mom to many rescued pets. I live in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia with my soulmate where ghost stories are often told on a dark side porch in the flicker of firefly light.