No matter how exciting the plot, it's the people in a story who make it memorable. The techniques and examples in CREATING ROMANTIC CHARACTERS will help you produce provocative, exciting, forceful characters with dynamic stories. Whether you're writing romance novels, stories which include romantic relationships, or general fiction, this book will help you create characters who are romantic and heroic, adventurous and mysterious -- larger than life.

Creating Romantic Characters: Bringing Life To Your Romance Novel

Reference

Michaels,Leigh

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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Built in the 1860s by Irish immigrants who quarried the brown sandstone by hand and hauled it four miles with ox teams, Saint Patrick's Church has stood in Monroe County, Iowa, for a century and a half. The great rock church known as "the cathedral in the wilderness" remains strong and solid, and the parishioners are even sturdier. Though families have spread far and wide, St. Patrick's Georgetown remains close to the hearts and minds of the people. No matter where they live, they're from Georgetown.

Saint Patrick's: Georgetown Iowa

History

Lemberger, Michael W.

Americas

Before Buxton, there was Muchakinock... Coal camp, company town, and the largest settlement of African-Americans in Iowa, Muchakinock thrived from 1874 to 1900. Located on top of the coal seams which ran through southern Mahaska County, Iowa, Muchakinock existed because of Consolidation Coal - and when the mines played out and the company moved on, so did the town. Even the houses of Muchakinock were loaded onto railroad cars and moved to Buxton, in Monroe County, where new mines offered the promise of economic stability to black and white families alike.

Before Buxton: The Muchakinock Years

Dickey, Lee Ann Simmers

Built in 1857, Mars Hill is the oldest log cabin church still in use in the nation. It is also one of the largest log buildings to have been constructed in Iowa. Though it is now an interdenominational chapel, it has been called the mother church of all Baptist faiths west of the Mississippi River. Severely damaged by an arson fire in 2006, Mars Hill has been rebuilt with original and period materials.

Mars Hill: A Living Legacy

Lemberger, LeAnn

Bill Spradley is back with a second collection of quirky and captivating short stories. Like his previous collection, Interludes &amp; Lunch, COLD TRAIL includes wry humor and touching sadness, wicked twists and unexpected tangents. In this second volume of short stories, the Nebraska native also touches the darker side with tales of life in the Sandhills and pioneers on the sod house frontier. “Spradley has an ear for dialogue and clever phrasing." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cold Trail

Literature & Fiction

Spradley, William A.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Monroe County History: Work Projects Administration

Iowa Writers Project

Within little more than a week in June, 1947, the Des Moines River flooded the city of Ottumwa, Iowa, twice. The 1947 floods proved a pivotal moment for Ottumwa’s history, leading to a massive project to straighten the river’s course, widen the channel, build protective levees, and repurpose land in the flood plain. Shortly after the double disaster, a small spiral-bound book of flood photos was published. Few copies remain. This new edition includes all of the photos from the 1947 book, plus 50 additional photos of the flood, news stories, and maps. New captions add context and information to all the photographs.

Disaster at Ottumwa Iowa: The Floods of June 6-15, 1947

At some point in our lives, we must all deal with grief and mourning. Because psychologists talk about the stages of grief, we expect that our progress through this unwelcome but unavoidable valley will be steady – first this, then that, as we move from stage to stage. But grief is more like a twilight zone – an area where things aren’t always what they seem. Where it may seem one day that we’ve reached the far edge of grief, only to find that it rises up and attacks us from an unexpected direction. When Loren Horton’s beloved wife Carol succumbed to cancer, he turned to poetry – a refuge throughout his life – to express his feelings of loss, of anger, of confusion, of overwhelming sadness. In Mourning Has Broken, he shares his work on dealing with grief – his journey through the twilight zone and into a very different, but no less joyful, morning.

Mourning Has Broken: Poems and Reflections on Grief and Loss

Horton, Loren N.

Parenting & Relationships

Bill Spradley's newest collection is his most wide-ranging yet, including poems and memoir as well as his trademark slice-of-life stories. He is as versatile, as wry, and as captivating as ever. "Spradley has an ear for dialogue and clever phrasing." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Holy Cows!

In the 170 years of its history, the city of Ottumwa, Iowa has experienced more than 50 disastrous fires and the loss of four firefighters in the line of duty. From leveling downtown blocks to destroying an entire college campus, fire has shaped the landscape of this river town, destroying landmarks but also paving the way for new development. Fires, and the firemen who fought them, are a crucial piece of the city’s story.

Fire!: Shaping Ottumwa's Landscape 1847-1999

Potter, Doug

World

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