Writing The Bestseller Ii Romance And Commercial Fiction

Author : Lindsey Stover
Publisher : Tule Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781942240778

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Writing the Bestseller II: Romance and Commercial Fiction by Lindsey Stover Pdf

Writing romance and commercial fiction means knowing the rules, and this book will help you learn them and get there. If you're wondering where to start, what to do, what not to do, how to find your author brand... this book has it all and more. Just take it from the 12 bestselling authors who wrote it! Experiencing all the ups and downs of the publishing industry isn't easy, so Writing the Bestseller II will help you not only handle the work involved, but handle it well. Learning from authors who have been in your shoes, who understand the market and genre, willingly share their tips, wisdom, and encouragement so you can also succeed. What are you waiting for? Get started on your writing career today!

Author : Jane Porter,Rebecca Lyles
Publisher : Tule Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781940296203

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Writing the Bestseller by Jane Porter,Rebecca Lyles Pdf

Is there a great book in you? Or several great books? Writing the Bestseller offers practical advice and wisdom from a dozen successful authors who have sold hundreds of thousands of books, experiencing all the ups and downs of the publishing industry. What to do, what not to do, as romance and commercial fiction have their own rules. Writing the Bestseller doesn’t sugar-coat the work involved. Instead, authors who’ve been there tell you how to understand the genre and reader expectations. The rewards of writing a bestseller are worth the effort, and these authors share what they’ve learned over the years so you, too, can succeed in today’s competitive market. “A master class in writing compelling and unforgettable fiction. Writing the Bestseller deserves a spot right beside your keyboard…” – Elizabeth Boyle, NYT bestselling author of Love Letter from a Duke and If Wishes Were Earls.

Author : Jane Porter,Megan Crane,C. J. Carmichael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943963215

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Writing the Bestseller II by Jane Porter,Megan Crane,C. J. Carmichael Pdf

Author : Jane Porter,Rebecca Lyles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 1940296218

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Writing the Bestseller by Jane Porter,Rebecca Lyles Pdf

Author : Dianna Love,Mary Buckham
Publisher : Silver Hawk Press LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781940651859

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Break Into Fiction®: 11 Steps To Building A Powerful Story by Dianna Love,Mary Buckham Pdf

Getting a book published is hard enough, but what about building a loyal reader base? It’s been said that nothing sells a book – to an editor or a reader – faster than a great story. Whether you’re a plotter or a pantser (write by the seat of your pants), Break Into Fiction® is the book that will help you find the weak spots (sagging middles, unlikeable characters, slow pacing and more) in your fiction stories. Editing is key to any story, but it starts with the author. Writing fast means nothing if the final story isn’t sound. But the sooner you grasp the power points for a story, the faster you’ll be able to build a strong backlist. Now you have a way to improve your writing one easy step at a time. Written by a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelists, Break Into Fiction® is a workshop-in-a-book and the one resource all writers need to master the art of fiction. This book is based on the popular workshops Mary Buckham and Dianna Love taught in the US and internationally to beginning writers, multi-published authors and even a Pulitzer Prize winner. Their innovative method shows writers how to create stories of depth, excitement, and emotion with: • Easy-to-understand templates that guide the new writer through building a novel and show more experienced writers how to deepen a plot and take a first draft to the next level much more quickly • Reference examples from strongly-plotted popular genre films of suspense, classics, children, and romance • Simple worksheets to build a strong story through Character-Driven™ plotting for any genre • Troubleshooting tips that reveal how to find and fix holes that weaken the plot • Insights from best-selling novelists representing a variety of fiction genres • A bonus dialogue guide that reveals how to make a character come alive through conversation. Break Into Fiction® is here to help aspiring-to-bestselling authors with a step-by-step guide!

Author : C. Bloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230287495

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Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900 by C. Bloom Pdf

This guide and reference work of all of the bestselling books, authors and genres since the beginning of the 20th century, provides an insight into over 100 years of publishing and reading as well as taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.

Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307372079

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Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje Pdf

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence—of both hand and heart—that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos, and eventually to the landscape of south central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time—Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around “the raw truth” of Anna’s own life, the one she’s left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough-hewn from the past. Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multi-layered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory.

Author : Jennifer Weiner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847395825

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Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner Pdf

From the bestselling author of In Her Shoes, All Fall Down and the forthcoming novel Who Do You Love, Good in Bedis a funny and tender story full of heart. Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people's lives for her local newspaper. And for the past twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her job, her friends, her dog and her life. She loves her apartment and her commodious, quilt-lined bed. She has made a tenuous peace with her body and she even felt okay about ending her relationship with her boyfriend Bruce. But now this... 'Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world,' Bruce has written in a national woman's magazine. And Cannie - who never knew that Bruce saw her as a larger woman, or thought that loving her was an act of courage - is plunged into misery, and the most amazing year of her life.

Author : Vanessa Grant
Publisher : North Vancouver, B.C. : Self-Counsel Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1551803534

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Writing Romance by Vanessa Grant Pdf

Author : C. Bloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230583870

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Bestsellers by C. Bloom Pdf

This essential guide, now available in a fully updated new edition, is the only available study of all bestselling books, authors and genres since the start of the last century, giving an unique insight into a hundred years of publishing and reading and taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.

Author : Bianca Sloane
Publisher : SBB
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Killing Me Softly (Previously published as Live and Let Die) by Bianca Sloane Pdf

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African American men
ISBN : 0865381089

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I Lock My Door Upon Myself by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

At age seventeen, Calla, a young woman living in upstate New York in the early twentieth century, is married off to a coarse local farmer and forced to live a depressing life, until a chance encounter with an itinerant black water-dowser leads to a passionate, obsessive love affair.

Author : Jennifer Probst
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440347467

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Write Naked by Jennifer Probst Pdf

Learn how to transform your passion for writing into a career. New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Probst reveals her pathway to success, from struggling as a new writer to signing a seven-figure deal. Write Naked intermingles personal essays on craft with down-to-earth advice on writing romance in the digital age. Probst will teach you how to: • Commit to your current work-in-progress, get focused, and complete it on schedule • Reveal raw emotions and thoughts on the page to hook your readers • Assemble a street team to promote and celebrate your books • Overcome writer's block with ease • Develop themes that tie together your books and series • Write the most difficult elements of romance--including sex scenes--with skill and style Regardless of the genre, every novelist faces a difficult task. Creating authentic characters and an engaging plot are challenging enough. But attempting to break into the hotter-than-ever romance genre, which is constantly flooded with new titles and fresh faces? It can feel impossible. This is where Probst's Write Naked comes in. To survive--and thrive--you need the help and wisdom of an expert. Written in Probst's unmistakable and honest voice, Write Naked is filled with the lessons and craft advice every writer needs in order to carve out a rewarding career.

Author : Joy Fielding
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385695619

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Cul-de-sac by Joy Fielding Pdf

A shooting lays bare the secrets harboured by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places. Someone in a quiet, unassuming cul-de-sac was shot dead in the middle of the night. Was it Maggie, the perfectionist wife, or Craig, the husband who can't quite live up to her expectations? When Maggie witnessed a shooting and later testified against a killer set free, the couple relocated, putting new pressure on their already strained union. Maggie is constantly looking over her shoulder. She owns a gun, just in case. Was it Nick, a doctor whose family, especially his wife, Dani, must bear the brunt of his ill temper? Nick is an avid hunter, too, and keeps a collection of handguns. Or was it Julia, a recently widowed grandmother? Her grandson is a troublemaker, someone not above stealing from her purse. His friends are equally unsavory. Her son buys her a gun for her protection. And then there's Olivia and her husband, Vic, who has been laid off, forcing Olivia to become the breadwinner. Vic is resentful. And depressed. He's started drinking heavily, and has threatened to shoot himself on several occasions. Or it could be one of the newlyweds, Aiden and Heidi, who are already on the rocks. Aiden refuses to stand up to his intrusive mother. When Heidi befriends Julia's grandson, it sets the stage for a major blow-up. Every house owns a gun. And anyone can be the victim, or the killer.

Author : Robert McParland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538110003

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Bestseller by Robert McParland Pdf

Whether curled up on a sofa with a good mystery, lounging by the pool with a steamy romance, or brooding over a classic novel, Americans love to read. Despite the distractions of modern living, nothing quite satisfies many individuals more than a really good book. And regardless of how one accesses that book—through a tablet, a smart phone, or a good, old-fashioned hardcover—those choices have been tallied for decades. In Bestseller: A Century of America’s Favorite Books, Robert McParland looks at the reading tastes of a nation—from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Through extensive research, McParland provides context for the literature that appealed to the masses, from low-brow potboilers like Forever Amber to Pulitzer-Prize winners such as To Kill a Mockingbird. Decade by decade, McParland discusses the books that resonated with the American public and shows how current events and popular culture shaped the reading habits of millions. Profiles of authors with frequent appearances—from Ernest Hemingway to Danielle Steel—are included, along with standout titles that readers return to year after year. A snapshot of America and its love of reading through the decades, this volume informs and entertains while also providing a handy reference of the country’s most popular books. For those wanting to learn more about the history of American culture through its reading habits, Bestseller: A Century of America’s Favorite Books is a must-read.