Writing the Breakout Novel
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<h2>Take your fiction to the next level!</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>You'll learn to:<ul> <li>establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place</li> <li>weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story</li> <li>create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page</li> <li>explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers</li> <li>sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish</li> <li>develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition</li></ul> 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.</p>
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