I was just notified that my emotional thesaurus book, Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings, has been selected as a FINALIST in the TopShelf Book Awards!
Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings
Emotional Beats is an award-winning finalist in the 2019 TopShelf Indie Book Awards
Because of the way our brains are wired, readers empathize more strongly if you don’t name the emotion you are trying to describe. As soon as you name an emotion, readers go into thinking mode. And when they think about an emotion, they distance themselves from feeling it.
A great way to show anger, fear, indifference, and the whole range of emotions that characterize the human experience, is through beats. These action snippets that pepper dialogue can help describe a wide range of emotions, while avoiding lazy writing. The power of beats lies in their innate ability to create richer, more immediate, deeper writing.
This book includes hundreds of examples that you can use for your inspiration, so that you, too, can harness this technique to easily convert your writing into palpable feelings.
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The winners in the 2019 Book Awards will be officially announced in the Holiday Issue of TopShelf Magazine this December.
Nicholas C. Rossis 
Your ‘Buy the book on Amazon’ link is showing as insecure, Nicholas 😱
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Many thanks for letting me know, Chris! Fixed it 🙂
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Welcome, Nicholas 👍
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One word, ‘Hurrah’!
Well-deserved, Nicholas. I am happy to add that I bought the book ages ago, and it’s great!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thank you so much, Pete! You’re the best 😀
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Congratulations!
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Thank you so much, Alethea 😀
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Congrats, Nicholas, and so well-deserved. 🙂
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You’re too kind, Diana! Thank you 🙂
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Well-deserved, Nicholas!
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Aw, thank you so much, Jan 😀
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Congratulations, Nicholas! Well deserved.
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Thank you so much, Beem! You’re too kind 🙂
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Congratulations! I use your emotional beat suggestions quite a lot! Well deserved.
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Yay! That’s the best award for me–to know that people have found the book useful 🙂
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Congratulations!
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Thank you 😀
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Yay! Well done! I often dip into it when I need inspiration for my character’s feelings, it’s a very useful book.
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Yay! So glad to hear that 😀
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Congratulations. I, too, bought the book a while ago and use it. Way to go.
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Yay! So glad you’re finding it useful 😀
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Always nice to see a fellow blogger be nominated. Congratulations Nicholas!
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Thank you so much, Pete 😀
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Reblogged this on Marina Costa and commented:
Congratulations, Nicholas! Polla sinharitiria!
And yes, maybe others want to know about it too….
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Congratulations, Nicholas. It deserves to be up there. A valuable book for writers.
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Aw, you! Thank you 🙂
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Very interesting Nicholas, and well done! 😀
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Thank you so much, Jon 😀
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Good on you!
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Thank you so much, Annette 😀
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That’s amazing, congratulations!
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Thank you so much, Deby 😀
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Reblogged this on Kim's Musings and commented:
Congrats to Nicholas Rossis!
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Awesome, Nicholas…Congratulations!
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Many thanks, Bette 😀
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Kudos, this sounds ground-breaking.
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Thanks! Amazingly enough, sales have actually slowed down after winning the award (but that probably has to do with October being a strange month for book sales).
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