The career novelist
Strategy session II: midcareer damage control seem to have the same unrealistic hopes and dreams for them as first-time parents ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST about the periodic rush to pay six-figure advances to total newcom- ers. This addictive and at times destruc ...
Strategy session II: midcareer damage control The same goes for editors. Publishing conglomerates are politi- cal jungles in whi ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST and warehousing costs. Those are less than original publication costs, of course, but reorder rates must jus ...
Strategy session II: midcareer damage control to try again, however, be aware that there is a right way and a wrong way to influ ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST advances to unrealistic levels. One-shot mainstream novelists are another matter; if commercial enough, for ...
Strategy session II: midcareer damage control is wrong with that impulse, but it is sensible to consider one's tim- ing and one' ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST What you need even more than an aggressive agent (or whatev- er) is a smart agent. Strategy beats brute for ...
Strategy session II: midcareer damage control Unfortunately, nothing much has changed. Neither is it likely to change quickly. T ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Changing publishers is also sometimes possible. In fact, it is sometimes the only option. If you have been s ...
Strategy session II: midcareer damage control Agent ineffective Agent not returningcalls Prevention-. Revise novel Take tim ...
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13 CHAPTER The Bottom Line-. Storytelling WHY TRASH SELLS IT IS ONE OF THE ETERNAL FRUSTRATIONS OF PUBLISHING: exquisite stylist ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Midnight? It is an unrealistic story about people who could not pos- sibly exist. It is a fable, all black a ...
The bottom line-, storytelling that many of them tell moral fables with tried-and-true outcomes, full of time-tested observation ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Virtually all of them begin the universal story recipe with some ver- sion of the following: Take a sympathe ...
The bottom line-, storytelling the same as goodness; if it were then Patricia Highsmith's criminal protagonist Ripley would not ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST If you would rather stick closer to earth, there is certainly no shortage of strength in historical characte ...
The bottom line-, storytelling your reader's attention and don't let it go." They all mean the same thing: a reader will not bec ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Harvard Law School graduate McDeere could have had any job. The novel's main conflict is still chapters away ...
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