An excellent set of methods for planning the book, deciding on plot and pacing and linking it all with the characters.

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Product Description

What is it about a good book that hooks the reader and makes them want more? A good plot. How do you turn that seed of an idea into a great epic? This guide helps steer new writers through the minefield of the writing process. It explains how to create memorable characters, generate cliffhangers and keep up a pace that hooks readers.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #501291 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.00" w x 7.70" l, .35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 244 pages

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Review
Quite simply excellent ... read, enjoy and be inspired. --Writers Bulletin

Jean Saunders shows how characters can be the pivot, how settings can trigger plots, how every novel needs pacing and much more... This is for anyone who wants to approach the plotting business sensibly. --Writing Magazine

About the Author
Jean Saunders is an award-winning author of more than 600 short stories and 100 novels from contemporary fiction and historical romance to crime and erotica. She's best-known worldwide as Rowena Summers, the writer of many novels based in the West Country, and Rachel Moore, author of wartime sagas set in Cornwall.Her WW1 saga Bannister Girls was short-listed for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. A former chairman of the Romantic Novelists Association, Jean now lectures on writing and writes a monthly column for Writing Magazine. Successful Novel Plotting is the most recent in her series of how to guide books for writers.