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… for the love of fiction …

Journey into love with Vanessa Grant, author of over 30 novels with over 10 million copies sold worldwide.
Check out our books by Carole Dean, and the Pen Warriors!
Visit VanessaGrant.com and search our free character name database.

Muse Creations Inc. is a publisher of DRM-free eBooks distributed through a number of channels. Muse is also the developer of MuseNames, the world's largest database of first names including name, ethnic origin, meaning, and numerology information. A free search of the 60,000 record MuseName database is free for writers!

Character names for writers – free names database!

MuseNames – free online character names for writers!

For over a decade, MuseNames has offered the world’s largest names database complete with origins, meanings, and numerology interpretations. Since the first MuseNames version was issued, the Muse Creations team have continued to develop this database of first names, which now offers 60,000 names.

Free online character name search for writers!

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  • Free character names for writers – 60,000 names! The world’s largest names database complete with origins, meanings, and numerology interpretations.
  • Brought to you by Muse Creations and author Vanessa Grant.
  • Enjoy – may the Muse be with you!

Are you using our MuseNames desktop software?

Still using the desktop MuseNames?
  • Our MuseNames desktop application was not designed for newer versions of Windows and has been superseded by an expanded 60,000 record database. This online database has all the search options of the original desktop software.
  • Free! Feel free to check out the free character name search for writers - brought to you by Muse Creations Inc and author Vanessa Grant.
  • We have received requests for registration from some users who received the MuseNames trial version on the CD that accompanies Vanessa Grant’s book Writing Romance, and wish to register it. If you have a trial version of the MuseNames desktop software that works on your computer and wish to register it, eMail  us and request our complimentary registration at no cost. Note that we no longer provide technical support for this product, although it should run well on WindowsXP and earlier versions.

 

It Happens at Midnight – stories from the Pen Warriors

 

The Pen Warriors are a group of published writers who got together for a weekend retreat 11 years ago … and have continued “retreating” to talk about writing, craft, storytelling, and publishing - 4 times a year, for the last eleven years! In 2010 they took their discussion online with PenWarriors.com.

When the Pen Warriors decided to write a collection of short stories for an anthology, they decided that each author would write in whatever genre she wished. But tor these 5 writers, a common theme ties the stories together –  it happens at midnight!

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THE STONE HEART … by Bonnie Edwards
Lorena’s fallen into an impossible love, but in a perilous sexually charged midnight game of Hide and Seek, who wins? The dark of the night? Or the bright light of day?

THE BROKEN GATE … by Vanessa Grant
Jennifer Sandborn fled personal tragedy to serve as a humanitarian aid worker, promising her husband she would return in a few months. Two years later she returns in the middle of the night. Everything feels familiar, but nothing is the same. Although she couldn’t see the house where her husband waited, memory guided her steps, filling her blackness with …

STAYING COOL … by E. C. Sheedy
Ex-cop, Patrick Byrne, is cool with danger, but not cool about undercover agent, Gina Argento. She walked out on him once, and Patrick isn’t about to let her back into his life. He’s not up for a second helping of heartache. But someone wants her dead, and he’ll do anything to protect her—even if it kills him.

THE TROUBLE WITH APPLES … by Laura Tobias
One last reading . . . one last good deed at midnight . . . and Freya can claim her ultimate reward. That’s the plan, anyway. But good deeds don’t always turn out the way they should and endings are sometimes new beginnings . .

THE LAST FORTUNE … by Gail Whitiker
When a handsome stranger appears at her caravan door for a midnight fortune telling, Rita Sheardown has no idea her life is about to change forever. But neither does her client…because no one wins when the devil holds the cards.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Bonnie Edwards writes sexy romances for various publishers from short stories to full-length novels. Lately she’s taken to teaching online classes in writing craft. You can learn more about her books (including excerpts) and her online writing classes at her website: www.bonnieedwards.com.

Vanessa Grant is fascinated by the mysteries of people, and believes in the power of love. She has written over 30 romance and women’s fiction novels that have sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Many of her titles are available in MuseBooks editions. Vanessa lives with her husband and their two Australian shepherds on an island in the Pacific Northwest. More about Vanessa

Laura Tobias Journalist Laura Tobias had a problem – journalists are expected to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.But making stuff up is way more fun. So Laura traded one notebook for another and today she writes romance and women’s fiction. She is also writes as the award-winning Laura Langston.

E. C. Sheedy writes romance, because she believes in the power of love, and romantic suspense, because sometimes a nasty and conniving villain pops into her head and she has to get him out. She lives and writes on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. With the ocean a few steps from her door and Zuke, a 110 pound Rhodesian Ridgeback, sleeping on the sofa in her office, she considers herself one very lucky writer. More about E C Sheedy.

Gail Whitiker suspected early in life that one of her Gemini personalities might be a writer, but the challenge was finding out what kind of stories she wanted to write. She is the award-winning author of seventeen historical novels and two contemporary paranormals. More about Gail Whitiker.

Author Vanessa Grant

About Vanessa

“I love writing fiction,” says author Vanessa Grant, “With each new story, I get to explore a new world. It’s the perfect occupation for someone who can’t decide what to be when they grow up.”

Vanessa Grant’s love affair with writing fiction began during a protracted illness at the age of 12 when she decided to write a novel of her own, sitting up in bed using the typewriter she’d been given for her birthday. Not a computer, not an electric typewriter, but a then-state-of-the-art manual typewriter. The story ground to a halt on page 50 but Vanessa never forgot the excitement of bringing her own characters to life.

In 1985 Vanessa’s novel Pacific Disturbance was published in hardcover by Mills and Boon. She now has over 10 million books sold and has been translated into 15 languages. She also has written what one critic described as, “by far the best writing book I’ve ever read.”Writing Romance, published by Self Counsel Press, won the Under the Covers Best Writing Book Award, and is currently in its third edition.

Over the years her love of storytelling and curiosity about people led Vanessa to study psychology, volunteer on a crisis line, complete individual and relationship counselor training, volunteer as a peer counselor for a family life organization, and tell stories about life, love, and secrets. Vanessa is also a university professor, a publisher of educational materials and eBooks, and has given workshops to writers’ groups in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada.

Vanessa and her husband live on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest with their two Australian Shepherd dogs.

Vanessa Grant Online

Web site and blog:  VanessaGrant.com

Twitter: @Vanessa_Grant

Facebook page:  www.facebook.com/vanessagrantauthor