How to Write Market Your Mystery Novel A Step-by-Step Guide From Idea to final Rewrite and Marketing

A step-by-step guide for writing a mystery novel from idea to final rewrite and marketing the manuscript. Choosing a title, characterization, dialogue, viewpoint, setting/description, opening hooks, plot, revising and marketing the manuscript are covered in separate chapters. Appendices include a sample of proper manuscript form, a sample query letter, a master fiction plot outline, and listings of mystery award winners. There is an extensive bibliography and index.

Jean Hager is the author of more than 50 novels, including eighteen mysteries. Her three mystery series include: the Mitch Bushyhead Cherokee Series and the Molly Bearpaw Cherokee Series, published by Mysterious Press/Warner Books, and the Iris House Bed and Breakfast Series, published by Avon Books. Several of her mystery short stories have been included in anthologies published by Berkley, Pocket Books, Tor/Forge and Reader's Digest. She is a four-time winner of the Tepee Award, has twice been a finalist for the national Agatha Mystery Award, and has received numerous honors in her home state, including induction into the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame and being named Oklahoma Writer of the Year by the University of Oklahoma.