Author: Lisa Saul

*ART* How a Notebook Changed My Life: Introducing Willow Lane

I was eight years old. I had just spent 50c of my pocket money on a little spiral-bound notebook. It was one of those reporter types, portrait orientation with binding across the top. The ones where you flip the page over the top of the notebook to get to a new page. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I knew I wanted that notebook.

moon and clouds

*BOOKS* The Secret Life of Wolf – Part Three

The Secret Life of Wolf Series: In this three-part series, you will find out the first time I met Wolf, one of my characters in the Bloodline series, how meeting him in the way I did changed my entire writing career, and why Wolf holds the keys to my past and my future.

moon and clouds

*BOOKS* The Secret Life of Wolf – Part Two

In this three-part series, you will find out the first time I met Wolf, one of my characters in the Bloodline series, how meeting him in the way I did changed my entire writing career, and why Wolf holds the keys to my past and my future.

moon and clouds

*BOOKS* The Secret Life of Wolf – Part One

The Secret Life of Wolf Series: In this three-part series, you will find out the first time I met Wolf, one of my characters in the Bloodline series, how meeting him in the way I did changed my entire writing career, and why Wolf holds the keys to my past and my future.

close-up photography of book page

*BOOKS* Never Say Never: Shadowland is now a paperback

Never say never. That should be written in big black letters on my office wall. Because if I say ‘never’, it’s pretty much a guarantee that I end up doing the very thing I said I’d never do.

white and red lighthouse near bodies of water at night

6 Extra Tips for Creating Page-Turning Mysteries

If you haven’t read it, you’ll want to at least read “Tips for Creating Page-Turning Mysteries” first, and if you are keen to go even deeper, here are six bonus tips.

person holding string lights on opened book

Tips for creating page-turning mysteries

In my article, “The Dream that Changed Everything,” I told you the story of the dream that God used to open my eyes to the power of mystery, secrets and unanswered questions to hook a reader. But discovering the power of mystery to pull a reader was only the beginning. Mystery, like all writing techniques, must be done well.

*BOOKS* The dream that COMPLETELY changed my writing

Many of my story ideas come from dreams that God gives me, and one night I had an especially vivid dream. In it, I saw a woman standing on top of an old crumbling turret in a kind of medieval fantasy world. The turret was all that remained of a fortress that once commanded the vast plains around it.