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.
