title: Spellbinding Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Achieving Excellence and Captivating Readers
author:  Barbara Baig 
description: I hope young writers find this book and profit from it! I give it the Vulcan salute--"Live long and prosper!"     <br /> --Ursula K. Le Guin<br /><br />Barbara Baig's <i>Spellbinding Sentences</i> is a tribute to the pleasure and vitality of the English language. Never prescriptive and always clear, this enlightening book is sure to help all those wishing to add grace and strength to their writing.<br />--Jane Brox, award-winning author of <i>Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light</i><br /><br /><i>Spellbinding Sentences</i> is sophisticated and down-to-earth at the same time. Barbara Baig has distilled decades of experience into this wise book.<br /> --Edward Dolnick,<i> New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece</i><br /><br />Barbara Baig's exposition of 'sentence craft' is a wonderful and useful treatment for writers young and old, fiction and nonfiction, practical and personal. Here teachers and students will find a handy toolkit for developing the 'word mind,' whose achievement is the beginning of distinctive, effective prose.<br />  --Mark Bauerlein, professor of English, Emory University, former director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, and author of the award-winning <i>The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future</i><br /><br /><i>Spellbinding Sentences</i> is a wonderfully clear, thoughtful and practical guide for any writer who wants to master the basic unit of our craft: the sentence. Barbara Baig explains the building-blocks of our language and the different ways they can be fitted together to create the effects that you want. This book will help any writer to move well beyond mere correctness, towards writing which is not just clear and accurate in meaning, but full of style and music as well.<br /> --Emma Darwin, prizewinning UK author of <i>The Mathematics of Love</i> and <i>A Secret Alchemy</i>
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  # Spellbinding Blend
  
  
  A Paramour Bay Mystery  
  Book Six
  
  
  KENNEDY LAYNE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **SPELLBINDING BLEND**
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Kennedy Layne
  
  
  Kindle Edition
  
  
  eBook ISBN: 978-1-943420-73-5
  
  
  Print ISBN: 978-1-943420-74-2
  
  
  Cover Designer: Sweet ’N Spicy Designs
  
  
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this
  copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement is investigated
  by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of
  $250,000.
  
  
  All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to
  actual persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Dedication
  
  
  Jeffrey—You were spellbinding from that very first email…I love you!
  
  
  Cole—Your freshman year of college is almost complete…we are so proud of you!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Table of Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](part0000.html#i1)
  
  
  [Copyright Page](part0001.html#i2)
  
  
  [Dedication](part0002.html#i3)
  
  
  [About the Book](part0004.html#i4)
  
  
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