Morgen Bailey

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About Morgen Bailey

Based in Northamptonshire, England, Morgen Bailey lives and breathes writing. ‘Morgen with an E’ is an author, speaker, tutor, editor, and podcaster. As well as being a competition judge, she is a columnist for Writers’ Forum magazine.

Morgen’s fiction books include crime and mystery novels, and short story collections. They are mostly set against a Northamptonshire background, whether there is crime involved, a dog-detective that can talk, or a serial dater on a mission!

Her non-fiction works are aimed at all levels of writers whether beginners or those who want to refresh their skills – Morgen also tutors in person and has several online writing courses available. She runs her own mentor group on Facebook, very much a collaboration, and she invites all authors to join. Her Writer’s Block Workbooks are a go-to for every author.

When Morgen is not editing, speaking, reading, or writing, she's walking her dog, out with friends or at literary festivals. The only time she sits down and does nothing is at the cinema but even then she’s making mental notes!

Author Website: www.morgenbailey.com

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After Jessica: A British contemporary cozy mystery novella Sep 20, 2016

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Money and a Girl Gone Missing

Meet Jessica, an ordinary girl who comes across extraordinary circumstances and pays for them with her life.

As well as identifying her body, her brother Simon then has to wind up her affairs but gets more than he bargains for...

Who is Alexis, and why are Veronica and Daniel searching for her? Why is there a roll of cash in Jessica’s house, and what’s the connection between his sister and Alexis?

"A clever, fun mystery: A puzzle inside of a puzzle, with characters you care about. Quirks of personality and accidents of circumstance turn ordinary lives into something unexpected."
- Bill Adler, author

"A pacy, full of intrigue, thrilling read that I couldn't put down. I thoroughly enjoyed the short snappy chapters. The characters' stories weave together perfectly as each one brings another piece to the puzzle that is Jessica's life! "
- Dash Fan Book Reviews

Writer's Block Workbook 2: 1,000+ keyword sets and 50+ tips to smash your writer's block! (Morgen Bailey's Creative Writing Workbooks) Jul 23, 2013

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A 365-day workbook with writing tips and multiple keywords a day to avoid the dreaded writer's block!

Writer's Block Workbook 2 features over a thousand sets of five keywords, three sets per day, with writing tips at the end of each week to motivate and inspire, providing kick-starts to avoid the dreaded ‘writer’s block’. Useful for any writer at any level, whether they have 10 minutes or 10 hours, to start a new project. Also an ideal tool for writing groups.

Beginning at ‘Day 1’ this book has been designed to be started at any time of the year, and regardless of whether the prompts are used in order or not. With a choice of three sets per day a writer can select one, two or all three, to include in their story or poem, and see where it leads them.

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Writer’s Block Workbook 1: 1,000+ sentences starts and 50+ tips to smash your writer's block! (Morgen Bailey's Creative Writing Workbooks) Apr 8, 2012

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A 365-day workbook with writing tips and sentence starts to avoid the dreaded writer's block!

Over a thousand sentence starts, three per day, with writing tips at the end of each week to motivate and inspire, providing kick-starts to avoid the dreaded ‘writer’s block’. Useful for any writer at any level, whether they have 10 minutes or 10 hours, to start a new project. Also an ideal tool for writing groups.

With a combination of six first-person, six second-person, six third-person and three non-specific point of view starts per week, there are plenty to choose from. Beginning at ‘Day 1’ this book has been designed to be started at any time of the year, and regardless of whether the sentences are used in order or not. With a choice of three per day a writer can select one, two or all and see where it leads them.

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One for the Road: A hit-and-not-run novel Jul 4, 2019

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Panicked at killing a man on a Northamptonshire country road, drunk driver Liam Ross buries the body in the woods. The man was an undercover cop. When Liam returns to the woods… the body has disappeared.

Set in present-day Northamptonshire, England, ‘One for the Road’ focuses on three interweaving threads: the repercussions for drunk driver Liam Ross after he hits a man on a country road when yet another argument with live-in nurse girlfriend, Jo, has driven him to the pub on that fateful night; gang underling Barry ‘Not Gary’ Newman; and newly married Todd Litten aka Neil Ryder, the policeman who was just doing his job.

"Makes you sit up and take notice.
Morgen Bailey certainly knows how to grab your attention with a shocking event at the start. With such powerful and vivid descriptions, I felt part of the story. How would the lives of the three people connect?"
- Ginger Book Geek

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Editing Fiction: How to write a book then pull it apart. 170+ tips checklist. For all levels. (Morgen Bailey's Creative Writing Workbooks) May 6, 2017

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How to write a book then pull it apart.

How to polish your novels and short stories – a comprehensive guide including a 170+ tips checklist.

In this book we look at:
- the components of your story;
- points of view;
- tenses;
- the power of three: beginnings, middles, ends
- another power of three: characters, settings, plots
- conflict and pacing
- polishing your writing: 170+ tips for making your writing shine;
- the layout of your book;
- and finally (a summary checklist)…

This book is suitable for…
- Writers of any age and experience;
- Writers of novels and short stories (predominantly – it will help scriptwriters and poets too);
- Writers looking to have their writing taken seriously!

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Writer's Block Workbook 4: 1,000+ story component prompts and 50+ tips to get you writing again! (Morgen Bailey's Creative Writing Workbooks) Aug 7, 2020

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Writer's Block Workbook 4 features over a thousand component prompts, three per day, with writing tips at the end of each
week to motivate and inspire, providing kick-starts to avoid the dreaded ‘writer’s block’.

Each week is formatted with three prompts per day each containing:
• Characters: there are two characters, usually a job, description or name*.
• Trait: this can be how one or both of the characters act or are feeling.
• Locations: where your story could be set. They might be a generic location (hospital) or somewhere more specific (Funafuti, Tuvalu, in the Pacific Ocean, north east of Australia).
• Object: often unrelated to location or characters – how can this feature in your story?
• Dilemma: this is your problem. It may relate to the characters, location or object, and again you don’t have to use it if it doesn’t fit with the story you have in mind. Some may not be obvious problems, e.g. ‘feeling particularly sunny’ but every story has to have conflict so this could be the start then things go wrong, although the conflict has to come early for the starting ‘hook’.
At the end of each week there is a tip, either inspired by one or more of the prompts or another that may help you independently.

The Weekly Tips Topics
Week 1 – conflict
Week 2 – ghost stories and plots
Week 3 – families
Week 4 – the fear of the known
Week 5 – celebrities
Week 6 – events
Week 7 – things change
Week 8 – writing what you don’t know
Week 9 – misunderstandings
Week 10 – onomatopoeic words
Week 11 – unfamiliar locations
Week 12 – writing what you know
Week 13 – colour charts
Week 14 – people watching
Week 15 – addictions
Week 16 – stay one step ahead of your reader
Week 17 – coincidences
Week 18 – funny ha ha or peculiar
Week 19 – exposition
Week 20 – blond or blonde
Week 21 – clichés, its vs it’s, losing the up or down
Week 22 – mind your language
Week 23 – split infinitives
Week 24 – decades and numbers
Week 25 – when to set your story
Week 26 – when life gets in the way
Week 27 – wrapping up your threads
Week 28 – something to be scared of
Week 29 – hyphens and commas in adjectives
Week 30 – learning something new every read
Week 31 – who we think we know
Week 32 – home not so sweet home
Week 33 – fan fiction
Week 34 – characters’ names
Week 35 – something to look up to
Week 36 – not so daunting
Week 37 – it was all a dream
Week 38 – bored with characters who are bored
Week 39 – don’t follow a trend
Week 40 – subconscious or unconscious
Week 41 – contentious subjects
Week 42 – love it or hate it
Week 43 – what’s missing
Week 44 – character interaction
Week 45 – as the night gives way to morning
Week 46 – too dark and too cold
Week 47 – on a deadline
Week 48 – directions and seasons
Week 49 – forgetfulness
Week 50 – inverted dialogue tags
Week 51 – fine-tuning dialogue
Week 52 – overuse of certain words

Useful for any writer at any level, whether they have 10 minutes or 10

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Writer's Block Workbook 3: 1,000+ random story prompts and 50+ tips to cure your writer's block! (Morgen Bailey's Creative Writing Workbooks) Jun 19, 2020

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Writer's Block Workbook 3 features over a thousand random prompts, three per day, with writing tips at the end of each
week to motivate and inspire, providing kick-starts to avoid the dreaded ‘writer’s block’.

Each week is formatted with random prompts under the following themes:
• Day 1: character – the protagonist (hero/heroine) or antagonist (anti-hero/heroine)
• Day 2: a single object or objects
• Day 3: a location or the environment
• Day 4: timing
• Day 5: a story plot or scene
• Day 6: something utterly random
• Day 7: a change – a prompt from one of the days is different, e.g. travel by plane instead of car or it’s winter instead of summer. These may either impact your story or you might like to write a new one. Each line will refer to its same place on the date stated, i.e. the first change refers to the first line of a particular day.
At the end of each week there is a tip, either inspired by one or more of the prompts or another that may help you independently. Some may feel very random but don’t worry, it can take just one word to inspire a story.

The Weekly Tips Topics
Week 1 – locations, locations, locations
Week 2 – avoid coincidences
Week 3 – an air of mystery
Week 4 – the five senses
Week 5 – the relatability of stories
Week 6 – an unreliable narrator
Week 7 – working with children and animals
Week 8 – the root of some evil
Week 9 – hiding behind the costume
Week 10 – fashion accessories
Week 11 – sibling rivalry
Week 12 – regrets
Week 13 – phobias
Week 14 – writing seasonal stories
Week 15 – second-person point of view
Week 16 – the environment and deadlines
Week 17 – family motivation
Week 18 – blonds, blondes, fiancés, fiancées
Week 19 – keeping it simple
Week 20 – inanimate objects
Week 21 – routines
Week 22 – nothing to lose
Week 23 – scaling the conflict
Week 24 – avoid clichéd endings
Week 25 – the leader of the pack
Week 26 – genres
Week 27 – confined spaces
Week 28 – stages of life
Week 29 – battles
Week 30 – determination
Week 31 – passion
Week 32 – new beginnings
Week 33 – characters, characters, characters
Week 34 – the emotional journey
Week 35 – no one is safe
Week 36 – surprise, surprise, surprise
Week 37 – colour me happy
Week 38 – think of the unusual
Week 39 – firsts
Week 40 – changing with the times
Week 41 – treading carefully
Week 42 – realistic dialogue
Week 43 – showing not telling
Week 44 – onomatopoeia
Week 45 – story endings
Week 46 – chapter endings
Week 47 – repetition
Week 48 – numbers: times and dates
Week 49 – play nice
Week 50 – _ly adverbs
Week 51 – we all make mistakes
Week 52 – and now for some fun

Useful for any writer at any level, whether they have 10 minutes or 10 hours, to start a new project. Also an ideal tool for writing groups.

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Writer's Block Workbook 5: 1,000+ new sentence starts and 50+ tips to kick-start your writing! (Morgen Bailey's Creative Writing Workbooks) Aug 11, 2020

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Writer's Block Workbook 5 features over a thousand sentence starts, three per day, with writing tips at the end of each
week to motivate and inspire, providing kick-starts to avoid the dreaded ‘writer’s block’.

Each week is formatted with three sentence starters from the following points of view:
• Day 1: ‘first person’
• Day 2: ‘second person’
• Day 3: ‘third person’
• Day 4: more ‘first person’
• Day 5: more ‘second person’
• Day 6: more ‘third person’
• Day 7: ‘any viewpoint’ where you can literally choose first, second or third person from the sentence starter options.
At the end of each week there is a tip that mostly come from one of the day’s starts but not always. You’ll see most third-person sentences don’t have names in case they influence your story.

Why three sentence beginnings per day? Two reasons: one alone may not be enough to grab you and I don’t want you to sit there as stuck as you were before you read it. With three to choose from, you have more of a chance to find one that you can continue. Secondly, if you have a bit more time on your hands, you continue two or all three of them. Or use them in the same story. Now, there’s a challenge.

Each sentence start is given as an example; if you find that as you write, you’d like to change anything about it, it is entirely your choice.

The Weekly Tips Topics

Week 1 – lie, lain, lay, laid, raise, rise
Week 2 – anymore vs any more
Week 3 – ‘ing’s
Week 4 – commas between adjectives
Week 5 – that or which
Week 6 – heighten the conflict
Week 7 – oomphing your writing
Week 8 – plural first-person point of view
Week 9 – collective nouns
Week 10 – keeping it real
Week 11 – facial expressions
Week 12 – story or storey
Week 13 – annoying habits
Week 14 – routines and addictions
Week 15 – time is not necessarily a healer
Week 16 – endings: sentence, paragraph, chapter, story
Week 17 – it was all a smokescreen
Week 18 – both, they, we
Week 19 – single entities
Week 20 – affect and effect
Week 21 – hinting that all was not well
Week 22 – give us a break… in
Week 23 – heads and shoulders
Week 24 – possessive apostrophes and hyphens
Week 25 – mirror mirror
Week 26 – think about what’s missing
Week 27 – editing doesn’t mean huge edits
Week 28 – sentences starting with pronouns
Week 29 – contractions and other dialogue tips
Week 30 – drip-feeding information to the reader
Week 31 – who, what, where, when, why, how
Week 32 – in to, into, on to, onto
Week 33 – accents and colloquialism
Week 34 – questions
Week 35 – okay OK
Week 36 – characters’ thoughts
Week 37 – dialogue punctuation
Week 38 – inanimate objects
Week 39 – gender repetition
Week 40 – well, look and adverbs
Week 41 – crumple vs crumble
Week 42 – everything has to have a purpose
Week 43 – names and formality in dialogue
Week 44 – action verbs avoid adverbs
Week 45 – using images for your characters
Week 46 – you

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The Serial Dieter: 31 Dishes in 31 Days... and a Sexy Colleague as a Distraction! (The Serial Series Book 2) Jun 7, 2020

by Rachel Cavanagh, Morgen Bailey

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31 Dishes in 31 Days

Following on a year later from the end of 'The Serial Dater' where Northampton-based technology journalist Isobel McFarlane had to date thirty-one men in thirty-one days, her health and beauty colleague, Donna Evans, is given the task of trying thirty-one under five hundred calorie dishes in thirty-one days and writing about it.

To add a complication, she has to cover her equivalent (Veronica) at their sister newspaper offices at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, while staying nearby with her exuberant mother, Lesley, at her house in Tring, during the week.

On Donna’s first day she meets James, a married hottie who she can’t get out of her mind.

Is the whole project a recipe for disaster or a sweet success?

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The Serial Dater: 31 dates in 31 days... what could go wrong? An endearing British dating novel (The Serial Series Book 1) May 21, 2020

by Rachel Cavanagh, Morgen Bailey

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31 Men... in 31 Days!

Izzy is a journalist who usually writes a technology column for a local newspaper. Her somewhat-intimidating boss William sets her the task of dating thirty-one men, via an internet dating site, all within a month, and writing about it for the paper.

Having an active, though fruitless, social life with her friend Donna, Izzy knows what she wants in a man, so creates a shopping list of dos and don'ts and starts ticking them off as she meets the men.

Follow the ups and downs of the dating process including Tim 'the Weeble', whose date leads Izzy to see banoffee pie in a whole new light, Lawrence the super-skinny social worker, Felix with his bizarre penchant for Persian Piranhas, and 'the music maestro but don't talk about dead pets' Jake.

By the end of the month, will Izzy have met Mr Right?

*A laugh-out-loud comedy about the highs and lows of dating*

"The book is just brilliant and seemed to feature every bloke that I have ever known! Right from the start I just connected with Izzy. A super book that makes you feel part of what is going on. This is a book that I could pick up time and time again. A perfect feel-good read!"
- Books From Dusk Till Dawn

"A light-hearted, easy read which will make you snort out loud. A fun, escapist read for fans of the Shopaholic series and Sex in the City."
- Bookish Bits

"I loved it. Some parts were too funny to keep a straight face. This book was right up my alley. There was love, laughter and romance combined with quite a few home truths. A perfect read to forget everything around you wherever you are."
- B for Bookreviews

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Shorts ~ Short Short Stories: 82 stories of over 500 words (Morgen Bailey's Short Story Collections) Apr 2, 2020

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This collection contains 82 stories of 500 words and over.

We have crimes afoot, characters with and without friends, loves lost and found, homages, heroes and zeros, humans and non-humans, ghosts and a werewolf.

With stories in first, second and third-person points of view, the characters shop, work, or go on journeys, some not beyond their own four walls.

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Oh, Henry: A fun British cosy dog-detective amateur sleuth mystery (Henry Houdini Dog Detective Book 1) May 10, 2020

by Rachel Cavanagh, Morgen Bailey

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A British cosy dog-detective mystery for the young in all of us

There have been amateur sleuths, there have been talking animals – Henry is both. This is Family Guy's Brian meets Poirot meets My Fair Lady.

Set in Northamptonshire, England... Henry, a talking Jack Russell, is part of a small team researching a cure for Multiple Sclerosis. He is the target of several dognappers but can he use his wit or guile to outwit them and, with the help of laboratory assistant Gwynne Davies, find the proof needed to convict the criminals? Thus begins a series of adventures for the unlikely pair.

Henry, a nineteen-month-old Jack Russell, has been given the ability to talk and now they can't shut him up! Family Guy's Brian with just as much attitude but better sleuthing skills

"An entertaining light-hearted read. Henry is a clever dog with a great sense of humour. Anyone who has ever owned a dog will wonder what their pet would say if they had the ability to talk."
- Mark Tilbury, Author

"Charming and quirky. A must for lovers of quirky cosy mysteries."

"Henry gains the ability to talk, and not just talk, he’s really rather clever and quick-witted with it to. Burglary, dim-witted dognappers, and also at times quite emotional, especially when Harry, sorry Henry met Sally, and a clever mystery all make for an entertaining and enjoyable read.” – Alex J Book Reviews

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