The First 50 Pages: Engage Agents, Editors and Readers, and Set Up Your Novel for Success
10 best books like The First 50 Pages: Engage Agents, Editors and Readers, and Set Up Your Novel for Success (Jeff Gerke): Red Moon, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, Wonder Boys, Writing the Breakout Novel, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, Plot Perfect: How to Build Unforgettable Stories Scene by Scene, Story Trumps Structure: How to Write Unforgettable Fiction by Breaking the Rules, Dialogue: Techniques and exercises for crafting effective dialogue, 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), The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
Red Moon
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 0316262374 |
It is also the first visit for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts...
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
| Author | H.G. Parry |
| ISBN | 0316452718 |
For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't...
Wonder Boys
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 3423124172 |
Writing the Breakout Novel
| Author | Donald Maass |
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...
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
| Author | Noah Lukeman |
Editors always tell novice writers that the first few pages of a manuscript are crucial in the publishing process -- and it's true. If an editor or agent (or reader) loses interest after a page or two, you've lost him or her completely, even if the middle of your novel is brilliant...
| Author | Paula Munier |
| ISBN | 1599638142 |
Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short stories, memoirs,...
| Author | Steven James |
| Author | Gloria Kempton |
| ISBN | 1582972893 |
When should your character talk, what should (or shouldn't) he say, and when should he say it? How do you know when dialogue—or the lack thereof—is dragging down your scene? How do you fix character who speaks with the laconic wit of the Terminator?
Write...
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)
| Author | Lisa Cron |
| ISBN | 1607748908 |
Story Genius is a foolproof program that saves writers from penning hundreds of pages...
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
| Author | Angela Ackerman |
How to Write Dazzling Dialogue: The Fastest Way to Improve Any Manuscript
| Author | James Scott Bell |
You may know the fundamentals of how to write fiction. You may be more than competent in plot, structure and characters. But if your dialogue is dull it will drag the whole story down.
On the other hand, if your dialogue is crisp...
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
| Author | Jessica Brody |
The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel
| Author | Jeanne Mackin |
| ISBN | 1101990546 |
Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli are fighting for recognition as...