Packed with tips from bestselling and prize-winning authors, Novel
Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion will give you all the
practical advice you need to write and publish your novel.
PART 1 provides an introduction to the forms and history of the novel
and helps you plan and research your masterpiece, develop characters and
compelling narratives and your own authorial voice.
PART 2 contains guest contributions from Philip Pullman, Louise Doughty,
Glenn Patterson, Jeanette Winterson, Jonathan Franzen, Stevie Davies,
Doris Lessing, Tash Aw, Elif Shafak, Anne Enright, Tim Pears, Anita
Desai, Tim Lott, Amit Chaudhuri, Andrea Levy, Alan Hollinghurst,
Bernardo Atxaga, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Michèle Roberts, Joan Brady, Lynn
Freed, Evelyn Toynton as well as a number of the 2013 list of the Best
of Young British Novelists including Kamila Shamsie, Tamima Anam, Naomi
Alderman, Ned Beauman, Jenni Fagan and Joanna Kavenna.
PART 3 offers practical advice on collaborative writing, overcoming
writer's block, editing and rewriting and finding an agent and a
publisher for your work.
Written by two multi-award winning authors, this is a comprehensive
manual for established and aspiring novelists alike.