The career novelist
A tour of the genres I believe, though, that there is more to the popularity of myster- ies than just great writing. I think tha ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST guide to self-promotion, booths at ABA (the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association), ads ...
A tour of the genres ence for a series and win over bookstores. New authors also get very little in the way of advertising and p ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Fortunately for cash-strapped authors, mysteries do offer one no- cost way of attracting attention: their ti ...
A tour of the genres to a healthy new body) was the author able to conjure a conspiracy with a true terror quotient. Perhaps glo ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST that demonstrate the threat's consequence for ordinary people are often lacking. Personification of the evil ...
A tour of the genres Gone with the Wind. Others following on the heels of that best-seller were Susan Hill's Mrs. de Winter, a s ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST CHRISTIAN FICTION From as long ago as the appearance of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Dante's The Divi ...
A tour of the genres Nelson, Macmillan, and Harper San Francisco have the field mostly to themselves, but that will probably cha ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST as diverse as his religious allegory Round the Bend and his great apoc- alyptic novel OH the Beach. He did n ...
9 CHAPTER Crossover Novels PUSHING THE ENVELOPE MANY COMMERCIAL NOVELISTS, ESPECIALLY WRITERS OF genre fiction, feel that they a ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST sible to tell some stories without going the crossover route. But crossovers are also risky. Authors who und ...
Crossover novels I called while preparing this chapter told me about a big-name author whose insistence on writing crossover boo ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST capable, but they cannot possibly read every book that comes in. I do not think most authors would want shel ...
Crossover novels stream author makes her own genre, and that can be harder than tapping into an existing category. On top of tha ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST plan carefully. Your story combines genre elements, but what is its primary audience? In which section of th ...
Crossover novels And what about marketing to the public? Here you need to coor- dinate carefully with your publisher. In all lik ...
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10 CHAPTER Numbers, Numbers, Numbers POP QUIZ READY? HERE IS A PROBLEM TO TEST HOW WELL YOU understand book publishing in the ni ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST When I began my career as an agent in the late seventies, the sit- uation was somewhat simpler. If I sought ...
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