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Name some of the huge bestselling books over the years--""In Cold Blood; All the President's Men; The Perfect Storm; Black Hawk Down; Longitude; Jarhead""--and they all have one thing in common; they all read like novels. Author and agent Peter Rubie shows the reader how to join journalistic research with riveting, character-driven prose to create narrative nonfiction. This is the only book to focus on writing and marketing the narrative nonfiction ""novel."" (An earlier version of this book was published under the title ""Telling the Story: How to Write and Sell Narrative Nonfiction."" This version has been extensively reworked.)
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""Brings the intricacies of narrative nonfiction to light in an easy-to-use fashion. . . . engages through Rubie's wonderful writing style. Don't miss this book if you are writing true adventure, biography, history, memoir, military, travel or true crime."" --www.BellaOnline.com
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- PublisherQuill Driver Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1884956912
- ISBN 13 9781884956911
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages287
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