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New Release: That Moment When…, a Young Adult Short Story Anthology

December 15, 2016 by Kira Lerner

Introducing a massive free anthology of YA urban fantasy, paranormal, dystopian, science fiction, horror and epic fantasy stories!

Get it on Kindle / Get it on iBooks / Get it on Kobo

Looking to dive into some juicy fiction over the holidays? Grab yourself a FREE copy of That Moment When…, a vast collection of Young Adult fiction stories by extraordinary authors, many of whom have fresh releases currently on the Teen/Children’s Fiction bestseller lists on Amazon, USA Today and the New York Times. There’s a story for almost every taste in this book’s 500+ pages, from paranormal romance to horror to epic fantasy to thrillers to dystopian and beyond. (The number on the cover in the image is actually under-counting the number of stories: there are 42 in here!)

I’m thrilled to say that my own short story, “Provisions,” was selected to join these talented folks in this young adult fiction anthology. You’ll find “Provisions” in the Dystopian section, but it has strong elements of Paranormal and a big helping of Horror. (Hey, y’all know I hate being bound by a single category!)

This is my first standalone short story ever, which makes my inclusion along with such popular authors in That Moment When… both an honor and a surprise. “Provisions” is a glimpse into a not-so-distant future where a calamity forces survivors to forage, hunt and hide from an ever-growing number of gruesome threats. One teenaged girl must care for her two siblings and–when confronted by two separate strangers near a mysteriously well-guarded house–will do whatever it takes to protect and feed her remaining family… regardless of the personal physical or psychic cost. Can she save her brother and sister…and herself… from starvation, predation…and damnation? Continue reading “New Release: That Moment When…, a Young Adult Short Story Anthology” »

Filed Under: Book News, Writing, Young Adult Books

Encouraging rereads by enriching your fiction

December 14, 2016 by Kira Lerner

Here’s an observation that’s somewhat related to writing/editing, though it involves acting.

I’ve watched Moonstruck (directed by Norman Jewison, written by John Patrick Shanley) about a kabillion times–give or take a few–over the past thirty years. But it wasn’t until rewatching it just now that I noticed a great bit of character ‘business’ performed by Danny Aiello very early in the film. (Very very mild spoiler ahead.)

Aiello’s character, Johnny, has just asked the film’s heroine, Loretta (Cher), to marry him. He’s about to leave for Palermo, Italy, to see his dying mother; Loretta insists on planning the wedding for when he returns. Johnny agrees, and asks her to get in touch with his brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage) to invite him to their wedding. Loretta’s shocked to learn that Johnny has a brother. Johnny admits that they’re estranged and haven’t spoken for five years. Loretta agrees and they continue toward the plane.

The moment I never spotted before: when Johnny explains how long it’s been since he’s spoken to Ronny, he lifts his hand with fingers spread (to indicate “five” years, obviously); then, suddenly, Johnny shifts his gaze to his raised hand, a fleeting look of embarrassment crosses his face, and he quickly lowers his arm.

It’s two seconds of business, tops. Anyone seeing the film for the first time wouldn’t understand this gesture; hell, as I said, I never even noticed it despite Moonstruck being a favorite repeat watch for me. But this time I saw it, and immediately it hit me: Johnny is recognizing his healthy hand and five fingers, and feels guilty over it. Because (mild spoiler point) as we will learn about ten minutes later in an entirely different scene, the reason for the brothers’ estrangement is that Ronny blames Johnny for distracting him while Ronny (a baker) was slicing bread–which resulted in Ronny accidentally cutting off the fingers of his hand.

There’s no reason a viewer would remember Johnny’s furtive look at his own left hand from that brief scene ten minutes earlier. But it’s true to character, makes total sense, and is the result of fantastic acting and/or directing (possibly writing–I haven’t seen the screenplay, but usually screenwriters don’t include such picayune bits of business). It’s a characterization choice that is only understandable to a repeat watcher. (And… given my obliviousness for over thirty years of viewing… obviously not even then!)

How does this relate to writing/editing? Because this is precisely the sort of ‘business’ authors should be including in their work to enrich your world-building and character depth. And usually it’s something that only occurs thanks to careful planning/outlining–or damn good editing on later drafts.

We all know mystery authors include clues and red herrings throughout their novels. Most fiction projects that involve a plot twist or character revelation will also contain foreshadowing, assuming the author wants the tale to feel believable. While there are many surprises in life that one can’t foresee, usually we’ve just missed some signs that led up to these incidents.

Less experienced or less confident writers (or those who don’t care about subtlety) will hammer foreshadowing moments into the story. Think of the infamous Chekhov’s Gun ‘rule’ that most savvy audiences have caught on to by now. (The idea is, basically, if a writer includes a gun in the first act, that gun had better go off by the time the curtain falls.) Or–particularly in fantasies–we’ll read about prophecies or dreams that spell out what’s going to happen with all the nuance of a hippo stampede.

(A more canny author might use these expectations to their advantage, and turn the apparent Chekhov’s Gun into a red herring.)

But let’s hear it for authors who provide stuff like that Moonstruck moment: Miniscule, light touches that only the sharpest-eyed readers will catch–and they may not even do so, the first time. Only later, on a second reading, will they come across such tiny hints and feel smarter for having spotted it. They’ll savor it, appreciate it. Of course, this assumes your work stands up to a second reading.

In fact, if you’re skilled enough to weave in such small threads while developing your story, the tapestry will be so rich with color and detail that readers will almost certainly want to return to study the art you’ve produced.

When reading an editorial client’s work, I always look for moments like this, and will strongly encourage authors to find ways to add such touches to their storytelling. I’ll often suggest specific ideas myself, if the author hasn’t considered them already. That’s the benefit of reading a story multiple times as an editor.

It’s certainly how I work as a writer. Many of my plots involve various twists or elements of suspense/surprise, even when the story isn’t an official ‘mystery.’ In leading up to the inevitable revelations, I’ll pepper the text with clues that might be caught by sharp-eyed readers who first come across them, but often the hints are only clearly understood once the truth has come out.

“But Kira,” you might protest, “why would you want your story to be opaque for readers, why would you want to require a second reading?” My response would be: Of course, one should never require a second reading. That can backfire, big-time.

The trick is to combine “normal” clues as well as these tantalizing little rewards. Plant such seeds and they’ll bear fruit by subtly inspiring readers to return again and again to the obviously craftily planned tale they’ve just enjoyed.

I used this method in the first and third seasons of About Schuyler Falls: The entire first season focused on a murder mystery with a rather significant twist leading to the solution. This twist was telegraphed lightly in the very first scene (technically, the prologue), then a major clue was dropped in the third episode. But the way things were framed, readers had no real reason to understand the significance of the clue–my co-author Cassie and I had redirected their attention by using the clue as a way to introduce some character backstory and development. So instead of people spotting a certain item and wondering “wait, why was this left at the scene of the crime?” they generally thought of it as a way to show our poor victim’s personality, and the depth of her connection to the lead detective on the case.

In the third season, there was–seemingly–no mystery at all. I (writing alone by now) wrote a storyline for a few characters that could have read completely like your average “guy falls in love/gets obsessed with the wrong gal” plot. There was tension in the plot, and the woman in question probably seemed to be behaving uncharacteristically whenever she was with the protagonist, but for those reading along, it probably felt rather straightforward. And yet people enjoyed the affair anyway, curiously enough. (For me, I would’ve found the storyline dull, but I think readers sensed Something Big was coming.) It wasn’t until the very last scene in the finale when I dropped the revelation that the woman was… well… not what the audience thought she was.

As a result, everything changed–the readers’ perceptions of the affair were turned upside down, and many in the audience did indeed read through the season again. Armed with the knowledge of this revelation, they could easily see how I’d played strictly fair with them–and that there were, in fact, plenty of hints about what was going on. But they were only visible in retrospect. It was a delightful exercise for me as a writer, and a fun sleight-of-hand that I’m very proud to say was universally applauded by my readership.

The same thing occurs in my novellas, Night Wolf and Fierce Moon. (They are basically the same story; Night Wolf is simply Fierce Moon but adapted for a YA audience.) There appears to be one fairly obvious mystery occurring–so obvious that it probably seemed as if I were insulting the readers, as if I expected them to be astonished to learn a piece of information about the hero. Instead, the solution to the murder mystery is what I was really hiding throughout the tale, and again there are a few clues peppered through the prologue, early chapters and more and more as time goes on. Dialogue that seems innocuous actually contains vital information that only becomes significant once you know the solution to the crimes. And I’ve had many readers tell me these books were highly re-readable, which is an enormously flattering compliment.

Speaking of books that almost demand to be re-read to fully understand how the author pulled off a certain revelation: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie is perhaps the most notorious. Deliciously twisty. In film, the obvious choices of The Sixth Sense and The Crying Game spring to mind. And on TV, the show that is perhaps the most revealing and rewarding upon rewatch is Arrested Development.

I’d love to hear others’ opinions on your favorite twists that made you re-think a film, TV show or book. If there are any answers, spoilers will probably be forthcoming, so label them if at all possible (or keep things vague!).

The lesson here is: don’t be afraid to hide clues in plain sight. Write with depth and your audience will keep coming back for more.

Filed Under: Editing, Writing Tagged With: About Schuyler Falls, Agatha Christie, Arrested Development, Fierce Moon, Moonstruck, Night Wolf, Writing

Grief marks an anniversary: One door opens, another shuts

July 1, 2016 by Kira Lerner

mom_meIt was thirty years ago today–July 1, 1986–when I woke up to the doorbell ringing.

7:30ish in the morning, as I recall, on a Tuesday. I was annoyed as hell. I’m a night person, always have been, and no one should be bugging me at that hour. I was 19, six weeks to go until I hit 20. I’d stayed at home that summer, making the astonishingly bad decision to accept my friend’s request to be music director of what was the second worst show I’d ever been involved with.

(And not just because it was the worst summer I had, but seriously, “They’re Playing Our Song” is just an awful show. Still, “The Good Doctor” wins out for a truly execrable lack of anything to recommend it. Interestingly, I only just now realized that they’re both Neil Simon. And I like the guy!)

But anyway, the badness of the decision had nothing to do with the quality of the show. What I should have been doing was traveling with the rest of my family–my sisters, father and mother–to the Bahamas. Their destination was an experimental cancer treatment clinic, in what I was too blinkered and naïve to realize was a last-ditch effort to save my mother’s life. Continue reading “Grief marks an anniversary: One door opens, another shuts” »

Filed Under: Reminiscing Tagged With: family, Great Neck, jessica, karen, kim, mom, nostalgia, pop, who i am now, who i was then

Review: Dawn of Wonder, by Jonathan Renshaw

October 14, 2015 by Kira Lerner

Dawn of Wonder (The Wakening, #1)Dawn of Wonder by Jonathan Renshaw
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A remarkable debut novel, Dawn of Wonder is a beautifully written tale of a boy–soon to be a young man–living and struggling to survive with his dignity and his (often-bruised) body intact while growing up in an intricately woven tapestry of a world.

Renshaw provides an astonishing level of detail regarding how this world works, from its nasty intra- and inter-regional political/cultural disputes to the multifaceted people who are so used to living life under strict societal rules that anyone who behaves with a measure of independence risks getting his head sliced off.

By far, the most enthralling section of the book (and luckily it’s the majority of this weighty tome–uh, speaking figuratively since I read it on my Kindle!) involves… well, no, let me start from the beginning, although I won’t give anything specific away. Continue reading “Review: Dawn of Wonder, by Jonathan Renshaw” »

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fantasy, Young Adult Books Tagged With: another chosen one, book reviews, books, opinion, reading, recommended reading, ya fantasy

The Perils of Unsocial Media

December 26, 2013 by Kira Lerner

Social media sites are a… mixed bag. On the one hand, they can bring about some connections, and reconnections, between people who’d otherwise never have been in touch, and these ties are to be cherished and their bonds strengthened. On the other… some connections you wish had been permanently severed long ago. Continue reading “The Perils of Unsocial Media” »

Filed Under: Reminiscing Tagged With: bullying, facebook, Great Neck, high school, kim, neuroses, self esteem, who i am now, who i was then

A Family’s Loss

July 27, 2013 by Kira Lerner

Fifty years ago, July 27, 1963, a family was lost.

The Lerner family consisted of a vibrant, playful mother; a confident and charismatic father; a six-year-old girl who was already filled with a love of music and performing for an audience; and a ten-year-old boy—the beloved firstborn son, the bright if sometimes hard-to-teach student, the prankster but loving older brother, the leader of his generation of cousins, the rough-and-tumble athlete.

Pop and Kenny.

Pop and Kenny.

The foursome lived in East Meadow, a Long Island town that was home to families who weren’t wealthy but were certainly more comfortable than their parents had been. The mother and father’s parents were all immigrant Jews who had known dire conditions both in American and in their various native Eastern European homes. But the mother and father were 1st generation Americans, married in 1950 right in the center of the 20th century, where enough work, talent and hope allegedly guaranteed you a prosperous and gilded future.

The Lerners were on track to fulfill this promise. Home movies from this time show softball games, picnics, the daughter dancing and pirouetting and preening for the camera, the mother smiling with pride and love, the father pulling amusing faces and coaching the various games, the boy running and playing and laughing because he was happy and healthy and likely felt as immortal as most loved, cared-for, and care-free children do. Continue reading “A Family’s Loss” »

Filed Under: Reminiscing Tagged With: family, karen, kenny, kim, mom, nostalgia, pop

My Love for a Gaming Blog and Its Anti-Sexism Crusade

April 6, 2013 by Kira Lerner

Hello world!

Filed Under: General Editorials, Miscellany Tagged With: #1reasontobe, #1reasonwhy, editorial, gaming, misogny, opinion, RockPaperShotgun, sexism, what I do when I should be writing

For David Janower: Don’t wait. Tell them.

March 11, 2013 by Kira Lerner

On Saturday I learned that David Griggs-Janower, the professor with whom I most associate my college years—indeed, the professor most responsible for my remaining somewhat engaged and motivated at school, at least enough to graduate—is, by a sudden, cruel and horrific concatenation of medical events, gravely ill and on life support.

He is only sixty.

I found this out by chance. I’m not in touch with anyone from my college days, not really. And I don’t log on to Facebook every day, and I don’t really interact with it because I don’t have much to share. But yesterday I did, and happened to notice one close friend from college and one former college acquaintance had shared a photo of a candle. The close friend is Jessica, who—along with Dr. Janower (as I knew him then, prior to his marriage)—are pretty much the only reasons I graduated.

The candleCurious, I clicked on the person who’d originally shared this candle image, and I saw a couple of others who’d done the same thing. All of them had one thing in common: Albany Pro Musica, a choral group founded by Dr. Griggs-Janower. Another thing they had in common: no one was saying a bloody thing along with the candle—just the photo. In retrospect I realize this was probably to preserve the family’s privacy and perhaps also because words may have just felt wrong, somehow. But it made it damn frustrating for someone on the periphery to know what was going on.

So I immediately messaged Jessica and tentatively asked her about the candle photo, whether someone involved with APM was ill. Yeah: “someone.” I think that’s how I put it. Even in a message, my mind didn’t want to take the inevitable journey, didn’t want to make the obvious connection. Not yet. But when Jessica didn’t answer me directly, but instead asked for my phone number and said she’d call me, I knew. She wouldn’t need to speak to me in person about anyone else related to this group. I was never in APM and had no real connection to it except Jessica and, of course, its founder/conductor.

David Griggs-Janower

David Griggs-Janower. Husband to Paige, dad to Katy and Michael, mentor to countless singers and students of all ages

I kept my phone by my side as I paced around my apartment waiting for Jessica’s call. Then it came, and after she apologized for not being in touch for a while—that’s Jessica’s way, apologizing, even though I’m just as guilty for not staying in touch if not more so—she broke down and told me about David. Aka DJ, or Dr. Janower, as I still think of him, though I’m now older than he was when he first taught me nearly thirty years ago.

Time basically stopped when Jessica gave me the news. Not just in the way that it stops whenever you’re given bad news, where your body freezes and your mind shuts out everything but the person’s voice telling you these awful things. But the whole current status of my life winked out. I wasn’t 46 anymore. I was 18. Or 19, or 20 or 21 or 22… Any of the years where DJ was part of my life, and his guidance and kindness made me feel like a human being instead of a void of worthlessness. All I could think was:

I wish I’d told him.

* * *
Continue reading “For David Janower: Don’t wait. Tell them.” »

Filed Under: Reminiscing Tagged With: albany, chorale, college, david janower, family, jessica, mom, music, singing

The Food Chain: My mom, cooking, and living beneath one’s supposed means

October 30, 2012 by Kira Lerner

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