Sentences with phrase «breakout novel»

He points out that setting is a character and that breakout novels use this to their maximum advantage.

Why not become the next breakout novel and make millions?

Set your work - in - progress apart from the competition and write your own breakout novel today!

Thus, it feels like only those authors who have breakout novels get constant marketing attention.

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman will star in and produce an adaptation of The Silent Wife, the summer literary breakout novel by A.S.A. Harrison.

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In DeLillo's 1985 breakout novel White Noise, catastrophe takes the form of a chemical accident that threatens a mid-American college town.

Facebook ads played a part in his success with his first breakout novel, and we asked him about that, but lately, he's been experimenting with Bookbub's CPM ads (banners that you can pay for that run in their emails independent of their sponsorship program).

At Donald Maass's Breakout Novel weeklong workshop, this question about word count was asked, and I default to Donald's answer every time.

Maass also carefully dissects examples from real - life breakout novels so you'll learn how to read and analyze fiction like a writer.

Years of ideas compressed into a jam - packed breakout novel that catches on and before you know it, a critic is praising your satisfying denouement (sic).

A friend of mine won the Amazon Breakout Novel Award in YA last year and still has to hawk her book to local stores to get them to carry it — the publisher wouldn't even send them a letter.

I'll not get into the nitty - gritty of how Crais masterfully upped his game in his bestselling breakout novel L.A. REQUIEM, but it had everything to do with the internal wars within his two lead characters.

«The most exciting account of a tennis match that I've ever read takes place in the pages of The World Without You... [a] great breakout novel.

New York City About Blog President of Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, author of Writing the Breakout Novel, Writing 21st Century Fiction and other craft books for novelists.

Finally, I couldn't agree more about the Breakout Novel idea.

Very often there is just the perfect magical something special about that breakout novel.

He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004) and The Fire in Fiction (2009)-- as well as numerous novels — and a past president of the Association of Authors» Representatives, Inc..

Buzz is that this could be a breakout novel for Hamid, whose first two books garnered critical acclaim and prize nominations for their insight into relationships between East and West.

Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society.

As in his breakout novel All Flowers Die, Stone demonstrates his flair for balancing an engaging plot, rich thematic structure and finely developed characters to tell a story that's both moving and memorable.

Donald Maass, in his wonderful Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook, discusses writing down ten possibilities for how a scene could be handled to get a point across — the first five or so are usually cliches, but as your creativity stretches for the next five scenarios, that's where you find the juice.

The course contains video discussions with CJ and I on reasons for indie publishing, pros and cons, the mistakes people make, how you get paid as well as an exploration of our sales figures for 2011 — CJ's breakout novel and my own, more modest figures which you will find fascinating.We discuss what happens after your book is live and how to optimize your sales page.

Writing the Breakout Novel, by Donald Maass.

L.A. Johannesson is ecstatic about the launch of her breakout novel that combines romantic fiction with a geeky twist.

L.A. Johannesson is ecstatic about the launch of her breakout novel that combines romantic fiction...

Many students find reading Don's book, Writing the Breakout Novel, prior to the workshop helpful to familiarize themselves with the concepts and for greater retention and application.

Writers of commercial fiction who wish to soar out of category, as well as literary novelists who want to learn how to make powerful story principles work for them, will find the Breakout Novel Intensive 2.0 an idea - packed and career enriching experience.

In Donald Maass's book Writing the Breakout Novel, one of his «assignments» is to create a chart.

I also feel that if we had a breakout novel that generated «Girl on a Train» type of sales, digital and physical bookstores would be doing better.

I also love Don Maas's Breakout Novel — really helped me to focus on and build conflict.

Currently Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass.

He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004) and The Fire in Fiction (2009), Writing 21st Century Fiction (2012) and The Emotional Craft of Fiction (2016).

I think we should all read Writing the Breakout Novel at some point.

The author of such critically acclaimed books as Aquamarine and Lucky in the Corner, Carol Anshaw returns with a sure - to - be breakout novel, Carry the One.

Every yearning character in this breakout novel is flesh and blood.

His breakout novel, Motherless Brooklyn (1999), proved to be a far more successful blending of his literary aspirations and crime - fiction influences.

Edwidge Danticat dedicated her breakout novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, to «the brave women of Haiti,» whom she honored by transforming her own childhood, in which she was raised by her aunt while her parents made a new life in New York, into a haunting novel that ranges from the supernatural to the political.

Now, in the breakout novel of his career, he delivers an enthralling story of intrigue, greed, and danger.

Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share — regardless of genre — then shows you how to use them to write books that can stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace.

Like Writing the Breakout Novel and The Fire in Fiction, this is intended to be a how - to with extensive «practical tools» and plenty of examples from recent novels.

With authoritative instruction and hands - on workbook exercises, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook is one of the most accessible novel - writing guides available.

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.

«What a delight to read the advance manuscript of Donald Maass» book, Writing The Breakout Novel, and to discover that it flows like a best - selling novel itself.

Building on the success of its predecessor, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook presents the patented techniques and writing exercises from Maass's popular writing workshops to offer novelists first - class instruction and practical guidance.

A writer whose «unflinching yet lyrical prose» O Magazine recently compared to Toni Morrison, Bond might just have penned the breakout novel of the year with Ruby, a period drama set in rural Texas.

Although the definition of a breakout novel is an economy of scale, to most it would be thousands of sales and high ranking on Amazon charts.

From PNWA Master Class, Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass, via DeeAnna Galbraith All about building layers and surprising the reader with something they didn't expect Character Work / Openings Is your protagonist: An everyman?