Audiobooks narrated by Sonja Field

Next Level Plot Structure: How to Write a Better Novel Using Advanced Storytelling Techniques

"Elevate Your Storytelling with Expert Plot Structure Unlock the secrets of compelling storytelling with Next Level Plot Structure, a brand-new guide from K.M. Weiland, author of the popular Structuring Your Novel. This comprehensive resource delves deep into the intricacies of plot structure, revealing the rich vein of narrative techniques and philosophical underpinnings that have shaped storytelling throughout history. - Delve beyond plot beats to explore deeper symmetry and symbolism in story. - Discover how every plot beat and scene is composed of two mirroring halves, contributing to the narrative arc. - Introduce readers to chiastic structure, a mesmerizing mirroring technique that unites the two halves of a story. - Master the dual beats of each major plot point to create dramatic scene arcs. - Explore innovative ways to structure scenes to keep readers engaged and eager to turn the page. - Examine the symbolic significance of a story's four 'worlds' and their influence on plot and character arcs. - Evade formulaic story structures by understanding the deeper meaning and purpose of each plot element. Whether you're a seasoned writer or just starting out, Next Level Plot Structure provides invaluable insights and practical techniques to help you take your storytelling to new heights."

K.M. Weiland (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Grou

"Master the art of crafting workshops that not only educate but also inspire lasting transformation in participants, with this time-tested and user-friendly guide. Gain the skills and confidence needed to: - Design and use interactive techniques: Craft engaging activities that prompt deep self-reflection and discovery in participants. - Show up authentically: Embrace vulnerability and honesty to build trust and connection with participants, creating a safe space for exploration. - Build trust for honest dialogue: Establish clear communication and empathy to foster an environment where participants feel comfortable sharing openly. - Ignite original thinking and group wisdom: Facilitate dynamic discussions and activities to encourage creativity and collaboration, leading to lasting learning and transformation. This comprehensive guidebook equips you with everything you need to successfully facilitate personal growth and collective wisdom in workshops, retreats, and trainings. Featuring a range of ready-to-use exercises, templates, worksheets, and checklists, this results-driven guide empowers you to confidently create and fine-tune your workshops with confidence and skill. Discover the tools needed to design workshops that resonate deeply with participants, fostering lasting change and growth. From planning and execution to earning trust and igniting original thinking, this comprehensive resource covers it all. This book will help you create life-changing experiences! Join thousands of readers who have experienced firsthand the impact of this book. With its emphasis on mindful facilitation, holistic approaches, and empowering content, Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats is more than just a manual—it's a gift that can help you make a difference in the world. “Profound and practical, this seminal work reveals the road all leaders must travel to create inspiring, stimulating, and life-changing learning environments. A must-read for all leaders.”—Richard Miller, PhD, Founder of iRest Institute. This audiobook is masterfully read by Brian Arens and Sonja Field, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Allie McSwain."

David Ronka, Jim White, Ken Nelson, Lesli Lang, Liz Korabek-Emerson (Author), Brian Arens, Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Shame-Informed Therapy: Treatment Strategies to Overcome Core Shame and Reconstruct the Authentic Se

"Overcome Core Shame and Reconstruct the Authentic Self! If you are treating anxiety, depression, mood disorders, relationship difficulties, chronic low self-esteem, or other challenges, this workbook will give you proven tools and techniques you need to help your clients overcome the shadow of shame. Help clients overcome chronic feelings of not being good enough and debilitating negative thought patterns that may have begun in childhood. Combining 40 years of experience as an educator, child development specialist, and clinician, Dr. Patti Ashley created Shame-Informed Therapy: Treatment Strategies to Overcome Core Shame and Reconstruct the Authentic Self to help clinicians crack the code on the often unseen and unspoken aspects of core shame, and develop more effective treatment for even your most resistant clients. - Understand, demystify, and treat the neurobiology of core shame - Work with Polyvagal Theory and the Four Therapeutic R’s: Recognize, Respect, Regulate, & Re-Story - Individualize somatic techniques that build and sustain self-compassion - Develop therapeutic empathy and balance power in the therapy room - Recognize how shame-informed therapy is a Hero’s Journey Shame-Informed Therapy is skillfully read by Sonja Field, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Gavin Skal."

Patti Ashley (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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5 Secrets of Story Structure: How to Write a Novel That Stands Out

"Want to take your writing to the next level? Discover the “secrets” of story structure other authors are overlooking! If you’ve read or listened to all the books on story structure and concluded there has to be more to it than just three acts and a couple of plot points, then you’re absolutely right! It’s time to notch up your writing education from “basic” to “black belt”. Internationally published author K.M. Weiland shares five “secret” techniques of advanced story structure. In the multi-award-winning Structuring Your Novel, Weiland showed writers how to use a strong three-act structure to build a story with the greatest possible impact on readers. Now, it’s time to take that knowledge to the next level. In this audiobook, you’ll learn: - Why the inciting event isn’t what you’ve always thought it is - What your key event is and how to stop putting it in the wrong scene - How to identify your pinch points and why they can make the middle of your book easier to write - How to create the perfect moment of truth to move your protagonist from reaction to action - How to ace your story’s climactic moment, every single time - And much more! By the time you’ve finished this quick listen, you’ll know more about story structure than the vast majority of aspiring authors will ever know - and you’ll be ready to write an amazing novel that stands above the crowd. Take the next step in your evolution as a writer! Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2016 K.M. Weiland."

K.M. Weiland (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting

"The Nutshell Technique cracks the code behind why we love the movies that we love. It guides you to organically write the story you want to tell. (Callum Greene, producer, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker) Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters don't know how to tell a story. What the 99 percent do instead is present a situation. In order to explain the difference, Chamberlain created the nutshell technique, a method whereby writers identify eight dynamic, interconnected elements that are required to successfully tell a story. Now, for the first time, Chamberlain presents her unique method in audiobook form with The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting. Using easy-to-follow descriptions (nutshells), she thoroughly explains how the nutshell technique can make or break a film script. Chamberlain takes listeners step-by-step through 30 classic and contemporary movies, showing how such dissimilar screenplays as Casablanca, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Silver Linings Playbook, and Argo all have the same system working behind the scenes, and she teaches listeners exactly how to apply these principles to their own screenwriting. Learn the nutshell technique, and you'll discover how to turn a mere situation into a truly compelling screenplay story. Since its publication in 2016, The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting was an instant classic. It is the go-to manual many professionals swear by, and it's on the syllabus at film schools across the world, including the world-renowned screenwriting program at Columbia University. It has also been published in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Italian. This audio edition is wonderfully narrated by Sonja Field. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2016 Jill Chamberlain (P)"

Jill Chamberlain (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Jane Austen Cannot Marry

"JANE AUSTEN CANNOT MARRY! A FISH-OUT-OF-WATER TIME TRAVEL NOVEL SET IN REGENCY ENGLAND AND THE 21ST CENTURY COLORADO ROCKIES. Nadine Finley has made the quantum commute to 1811 to stop Jane Austen from meeting and marrying Captain Charles Gordon. The two of them share a romantic past, and if Nadine fails in her mission, Jane will never get to London. The fledgling author will never get her first book ready for publication. And if the novel is never readied for the presses, Jane will never go back home and revise the manuscript that will eventually become Pride and Prejudice. In short, disaster. The mission instructions were plain and simple: Jane Austen cannot marry. Except...matters become extremely complicated when the Scribe Guardian’s own romantic interest unintentionally follows her across the centuries to 1811. Xander Nouri is a tech billionaire who is cheerfully unfamiliar with both history and literature. He has also forged a life where he is insulated from the non-quantifiable uncertainties of feelings and romance. In fact, the only time he let his guard down was for three wildly unexpected days in Las Vegas when he allowed his heart to be fondled and then stomped on by an elusive woman named Nadine. Xander lives in a world of reason, facts, and data…none of which explain her appearance, dressed in period clothing, in a coffin a mile from his secluded mountain home. And her claim of time traveling doesn’t exactly compute. It’s not long before sparks once again begin to fly between the former lovers. But Nadine needs to get back to her mission before literary history is permanently damaged. By the time she’s able to make the quantum leap back in time, Jane Austen and the captain have already met again...and romance is brewing. To complicate matters, Xander has made the trip, as well. And Xander is the unlikeliest ‘nerd-out-of-water’ ever to land on Regency shores. “POWERFUL AND POIGNANT…I LOVED THIS BOOK.” - Jane Porter, NYT Bestselling Author"

May McGoldrick (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Before Books 1-3

"Three gripping time-travel tales of love and murder… BEFORE THE KILLING: After 19-year-old Cassie returns home from her first year away at college, her boyfriend, Julian, is implicated in a brutal killing. Seven years later, a freak occurrence gives Cassie a unique time-traveling ability, allowing her to re-live that earlier time with the benefit of foreknowledge. But in witnessing the truth, she inadvertently reveals herself to the killer, who pursues her in past and present both. “Once I started I couldn’t put it down!” -Bookshelf Adventures BEFORE SHE WAS TAKEN: 25-year-old Rebecca Danser's life is a mess ever since she was six and her younger sister Sadie disappeared on her watch. But then she realizes the time-traveling ability she recently gained can be used to discover who took Sadie that fateful day. What she learns leads her into a remote forest in the Sierra Mountains, where the monster responsible for the destruction of her family lies in wait for her. 'A cleverly plotted fantasy thriller with a strong cast of characters.' -The Wishing Shelf Book Award BEFORE HE VANISHED: Still troubled by the growing sense that she should be using her unique ability to save others who've gone missing, Rebecca takes up the case of a Black-American boy who vanished a year ago. Frustrated that police and media have made little effort to find 13-year-old Ethan Pitt or publicize his disappearance, she jumps back in time to discover what really happened. But Rebecca puts her past and present at great risk as she narrows down the suspects and infiltrates the lair of the ruthless manipulator most likely responsible for Ethan's vanishing. “Mystery fans will love this plot device, which takes a straightforward whodunit to an otherworldly level.' -The BookLife Prize '(Benedict's) prose is crisp and purposeful, charged with feeling, and always attuned to what will engage readers in each moment.' (The BookLife Prize)"

Margie Benedict (Author), Alex Picard, Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Wired Fear: A Paradise Crime Thriller

"If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive ✅ Likes kids and animals more than people ✅ Often goes off the grid and hides under a fake identity ✅ Never, never gives up on a case. Never. Paradise is haunted by betrayal. What if you discovered that those closest to you were not who they seemed? Tech sleuth Sophie Ang, her lovable dog Ginger, and her partner, Jake Dunn, tackle a new case involving a famous hula festival on the Big Island--but that's only one of the hot situations demanding Sophie's attention. Repercussions from the past and the return of a deadly relative threaten to tear apart the fragile life Sophie's trying to build. Everyone around her seems to want more from Sophie than she can give, and one of them plans to take her life. In the midst of a volcano of conflicting agendas, Sophie must find a way to truth, victory and freedom. 'Neal's writing is persistently riveting... Masterly.' ~Kirkus Reviews"

Toby Neal (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Writing Archetypal Character Arcs: The Hero's Journey and Beyond

"The Six Transformational Character Arcs of the Human LifeReady to take your story’s character arcs and themes to the next level? This latest book from veteran writing teacher and story theorist K.M. Weiland ventures far beyond the popular and pervasive Hero’s Journey to explore six important archetypal character arcs, representing key moments of initiation in the human experience: - The Maiden - The Hero - The Queen - The King - The Crone - The Mage Found in every genre from fantasy to drama to romance to adventure, these transformational stories are the secret of powerhouse fiction—as shown through a wide variety of real-story examples throughout the book. Writing Archetypal Character Arcs will teach you: - The archetypal beats for each of the six journeys - Which archetypes are right for your particular story - The best way to use archetypes in a series - How to choose the right archetypes for supporting characters - How to use archetypes to identify your story’s theme You will also learn how to deepen your stories by implementing shadow archetypes (the negative sides of each positive archetype), resting or “flat” archetypes (the fixed stage between each of the main arcs), and archetypal antagonists (the epic antagonistic forces that oppose each of the positive archetypes in their journeys). The Hero’s Journey is just the beginning. Learning about archetypal character arcs will change the way you view stories—and life—forever."

K.M. Weiland (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Before the Killing

"A time-travel tale of love and murder… In 1973, 19-year-old Cassie returns to her home town in coastal Massachusetts after her first year away at college. The next day, her boyfriend, Julian, is implicated in a brutal killing. “Once I started I couldn’t put it down!” -Bookshelf Adventures Seven years later, a freak occurrence gives Cassie a unique time-traveling ability. She can cast her consciousness back to a younger version of herself, allowing her to re-live that earlier time with the benefit of foreknowledge. 'A cleverly plotted fantasy thriller with a strong cast of characters.' -The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Cassie, who has never gotten over her feelings for Julian, asks herself the question, what if he was innocent? Now she has a way to go back in time and witness what actually happened. “Mystery fans will love this plot device, which takes a straightforward whodunit to an otherworldly level.' -The BookLife Prize In witnessing the truth, she inadvertently reveals herself to the killer, who begins to pursue her in past and present both. With no evidence beyond what she’s seen during time travel, how can she hope to bring the killer to justice before she becomes the next victim? Margie Benedict's 'prose is crisp and purposeful, charged with feeling, and always attuned to what will engage readers in each moment.' (The BookLife Prize)"

Margie Benedict (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Before She Was Taken

"A time-travel tale of abduction and redemption... What happened to Sadie? This question has plagued 25-year-old Rebecca Danser for 19 years. Imagine if at the age of six, you had ditched your four-year-old sister to go play with your friend… and then you never saw her again. 'Amazing… I greatly recommend it. I can't wait to continue with the series.' -Bookshelf Adventures In the intervening years, now living in Silicon Valley, Rebecca has made a mess of her life. She hates her job, has no career prospects, and has never had a successful relationship unless you count sex with a relative stranger during her time jumps into the past. “Mystery fans will love this plot device, which takes a straightforward whodunit to an otherworldly level.' -The BookLife Prize But soon she realizes this strange ability she recently gained, allowing her to cast her consciousness back into a younger version of herself, can be used to discover who took Sadie that fateful day. Benedict's 'prose is crisp and purposeful, charged with feeling, and always attuned to what will engage readers in each moment.' -The BookLife Prize She must travel back in time to witness the event with her 6-year-old eyes. What she learns leads her into a remote forest in the Sierra Mountains… where the monster responsible for the destruction of her family lies in wait for her."

Margie Benedict (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Matchmaking Magic: 3 Sweetly Magical Romances

"Three sweetly bewitching romances When love needs a little (magical) push, matchmaking Glenda intervenes. - A woman finds love with the man of her dreams...who she meets in her dreams. - Another woman finds love with her grandfather’s friend...who she thought didn’t exist. - And the daughter of a man who scares all of her suitors away finds love with a man who’s so much braver than he seems. Matchmaking Magic includes Timely Love, Ghostly Love, and Deathly Love, three low conflict, sweet romances featuring regular people falling in love with magical help. Curses and witches and a man who collects souls for a living make guest appearances."

Cate Lawley (Author), Sonja Field (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Sonja Field