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Title: The Writer's Digest Handbook of Novel Writing
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0898798310
ISBN 13: 9780898798319
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good

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Covers tone, plot, characterization, dialogue, point of view, pacing, research, revision, agents, manuscript submission, book contracts, and copyediting

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This is an anthology of articles culled from Writer's Digest magazine, emphasizing genre and popular fiction. Literary and small-press publishing are not treated, nor are contests, grants, etc. Featured are Orson Scott Card on characterization, Lawrence Block on plotting, Dean Koontz on agents, Tom Clancy on best sellers, and a host of less well-known regulars to the magazine commenting on the how-to, not the art, of novels. Some 37 chapters deal with copy editors, selling a manuscript, suspense, outlining, dialog, plot, and so on. Several articles are little but pep talks, but David Groff is interesting on (nonsexist!) love scenes for the contemporary reader, and Michael Seidman's distilled advice about book contracts is valuable. Much common sense here, and no despair whatever, as if writing a novel were like baking bread.
- John Mort, Kansas City P.L., Mo.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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