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Writing the Breakout Novel : Winning Advice from a Top Agent and His Best-selling Client, Paperback / softback Book

Writing the Breakout Novel : Winning Advice from a Top Agent and His Best-selling Client Paperback / softback

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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 placeweave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing storycreate larger-than-life characters that step right off the pageexplore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readerssustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finishdevelop 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.

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