title: Story Starters: Prompts for the Reluctant Writer
author:  Jennifer Greenleaf 
description: Jenn Greenleaf is a freelance writer and author hailing from the great state of Maine. Shes been active in the writing and publishing industry since 1999, which happened to be the same year she became a first-time mother. Shes now raising three children with her wonderful husband, Chris. Jenn has also been a commissioned artist since 1993. She began her career as a landscape and still life artist, and later moved on to mixed-media art in 2003. Her interest in mixed media began when she started actively participating in mail-art projects through various websites. These efforts, of course, lead to writing various how-to and other mixed media related articles and books. You can learn more about Jenn and her career efforts by visiting her website: http://www.jennifergreenleaf.weebly.com.
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  DESPERATE MEASURES
  
  BY
  
  CLAIRE FIRTH
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Text copyright © 2013 Claire Firth
  
  All Rights Reserved
  
  The right of Claire Firth to be identified as the author of this work has been
  asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
  1988.
  
  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
  or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written
  permission of the publisher and author.
  
  All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the
  public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or
  dead, is purely coincidental.
  
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  To my family and friends for their
  
  Endless support and encouragement
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Hello everyone,
  
  After I had such great feedback on Sophia and Ralph’s journey in The Reluctant
  Bride, it spurred me on to write a follow-up novell