Book description
Take your fiction to the next level!
Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance.
Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck
in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent
Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and
write a breakout novel - one that rises out of obscurity and hits the
best-seller lists.
Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share -
regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make
your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace.
You'll learn to:
- establish a powerful and sweeping sense of
time and place
- weave subplots into the main action for a
complex, engrossing story
- create larger-than-life
characters that step right off the page
- explore universal
themes that will interest a broad audience of readers
- sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to
finish
- develop an inspired premise that sets your novel
apart from the competition
Then, using examples from the
recent works of several best-selling authors - including novelist Anne
Perry - Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect
of your novel writing. You'll capture the eye of an agent, generate
publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career.
