Hank Quense: 23 books

Indie Reader: CREATING STORIES is a useful resource for new writers who have a terrific story idea but aren't sure how to go about turning that into a functional, readable, enjoyable novel. 4.5 stars~ ~ ~Mark Cain, best-selling satirist, author of the CIRCLES IN HELL seriesDeveloping a method for...

What reviewers have to say about the book:If you or someone you know is thinking about or has already written a book this book will help make your dream become reality so much faster. AD SimmonsA valuable and cost-effective resource for writers, I highly recommend Self-Publishing a Book by Hank Quense...

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction,...

The goal of self-publishing a book is to produce a quality book package to surround your content. Despite what you read on the internet, self-publishing isn’t easy.This set of books de-mystifies the process. Besides describing a process to publish your book, you’ll learn how to market it and how...

This book describes a process to plan your story project prior to writing the first draft. The purpose of the plan is to allow the author to concentrate on the important elements of the story such as character development, plots and scene design. Other sections in the book address story setting, character...

If you published a book or plan to publish a book and if you don't understand the need for building a marketing plan, or if you don't know how to develop a marketing plan, this book explains it all. It contains a ready-to-use marketing plans that will have you marketing your book in no time. This...

Authors need to know the basics of operating a business and they can find them here. This book explains business planning, tracking revenue and expense, profit/loss calculations, break-even analysis and more. It offers a no-nonsense explanation of business basics, told without the usual techno-babble.Other...

This book represents a unique approach to fiction writing. It encapsulates the entire stiry design process into a series of annotated mind-maps. Each major element of the story design process has a mind-map. Each bubble in the mind-map has a note attached to it. The note may be a sentence, a paragraph...

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction,...

Synopsis for the Zaftan Troubles series An alien mining ship discovers a mineral rich planet. Unfortunately, the planet has intelligent beings, an added burden for the aliens. The natives — humans and fantasy creatures — are just entering the Industrial Age so the aliens enjoy a huge technological...

Synopsis for the Zaftan Troubles series An alien mining ship discovers a mineral rich planet. Unfortunately, the planet has intelligent beings, an added burden for the aliens. The natives — humans and fantasy creatures — are just entering the Industrial Age so the aliens enjoy a huge technological...

If that isn't bad enough, these two tragedies are now comedies with Falstaff, Shakespeare's most popular rogue, thrown in as a bonus. Both Hamlet and Othello are plagued by the scheming Falstaff, a human. Hamlet is the Prince of Denmarko and is striving to start a private business -- bee-keeping...

Goodreads reviewers loved the book: I was first drawn to this book by the intriguing and imaginative sounding plot, it was enough to convince me to dive right into the story. From the beginning I knew I was reading something special. Dan Dixon I loved this book and all I can say is if you decide...

In this humorous tale, it is now ten years since Moxie became Queen of Usca in south-west Britain. A tribe of Picts shatter her peaceful reign by migrating from the north and occupying territory just outside her border. Moxie decides to build a fort to help control the wild Picts. To her surprise,...