Inside Love Inspired Suspense with Lynette Eason

Hi everyone, I’m Lynette Eason. I’m a New York Times Bestselling author and I’ve written over 35 books for LIS (Love Inspired Suspense). Writing for LIS allowed me to hit the NYT, the USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and other bestseller lists. Not everyone can write for LIS because it’s such a specialized niche. BUT, if you can get your foot in the door, you have an instant readership. Love Inspired readers often subscribe to the monthly distribution where they automatically get the new releases delivered to their doorstep. Like I said, instant readership. They’re not necessarily buying the author, they’re buying the brand, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use your creative gifts while writing for the line. You absolutely can! And if you can get in with them, it’s a great way to start building YOUR brand and a way to set yourself up for an amazing career.

Here’s what you get in this course:

Inside Love Inspired Suspense

Fifteen lessons in five modules, built around the workbook. Watch a lesson, fill in a worksheet, and finish the course holding a complete, submission-ready plan for your book. You still have to write the thing, but at least you have a blueprint to follow.

Module 1 — The Foundation

• Lesson 1: Welcome to the Line
  What Love Inspired Suspense promises its readers, the rules of the line, and the three published novels this course is built on.
• Lesson 2: Hooks, Tropes, and Your Premise
  The difference between a hook and a trope, what the line is shopping for now, and how to stack hooks so an editor reads your pitch twice.

Module 2 — The People

• Lesson 3: The Load-Bearing Wounds
  Building wounds the suspense plot presses on — and putting your leads on opposite sides of the question your plot must answer.
• Lesson 4: Backstory Drip and Cast Economy
  Releasing backstory in plot-triggered installments, and why every named character needs two jobs.
• Lesson 5: The Weapon and the Hand
  The two-layer villain: a visible threat who supplies the danger, and a hidden hand the leads trust.
• Lesson 6: Clues, Misdirects, and the False Answer
  Fair-play clues in disguise, the innocent suspect, and the false answer that falls apart at two-thirds.

Module 3 — The Pacing

• Lesson 7: Danger Scenes by the Numbers
  Every danger scene in three published novels, measured — and why dread is long and violence is short.
• Lesson 8: Menace Beats and Your Chapter One
  The cheap scares that keep the wire tight, and the two legal ways to open chapter one.
• Lesson 9: The Other 80% — The Aftermath Scene
  The scene type that fills most of the book, and the three jobs every one of them must do.
• Lesson 10: Never End at Rest
  Hard and soft cliffhangers, and braiding danger, romance, and faith into the same paragraph.

Module 4 — The Threads

• Lesson 11: The Romance Thread
  The escalation ladder, the danger-triggered first kiss, the pull-back beat, and holding the declaration until the villain falls.
• Lesson 12: The Faith Thread
  Arrow prayers, one structural beat per lead, community rather than doctrine — and why the most faithful books say the least.

Module 5 — The Assembly & the Sale

• Lesson 13: Building the Book Chapter By Chapter
  The capstone. We build a complete chapter grid together, live, in three passes — danger spine, threads, then hooks.
• Lesson 14: The Clean-Content Pass
  The content standards, the words to scrub, and how to assign vices so they work for your plot.
• Lesson 15: The Proposal Packet
  The submission package.
• Lesson 16: Building the Series
  How do you turn one book into several.
• Lesson 17: The SYNOPSIS
  A full walkthrough of a model synopsis, step by step.