Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level

Take your fiction to the next level!

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.

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.

You'll learn to:

• establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place
• weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story
• create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page
• explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers
• sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish
• develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition

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.

• Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook
• The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
• Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
• The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great
• Writing 21st Century Fiction: High Impact Techniques for Exceptional Storytelling
• Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
• The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
• Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go
• Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)