Describing Characters: How to Bring Story People to Life – New Book!
The second in a series of books providing techniques and inspiration for writing description in fiction. Here you’ll see how to write text that allows your reader to see an image of a character in their mind’s eye.
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Description Basics
There are four skills that a fiction writer must develop: plotting a story, creating characters, writing dialogue, and writing description. The last of these is as important as the first three. Yet, relatively little has been written about the art and craft of writing description. This is the first in a series of books designed to meet this need.
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Blurbs & Book Descriptions
Many authors find writing blurbs or book descriptions difficult. Why is it so hard? Because it requires a different kind of writing than we’re familiar with. To write an effective blurb, you need to learn the art of copywriting – a skill that we tend to associate with the marketing and advertising industries. This association makes some authors uncomfortable. But copywriting can be used for good as well as evil. Blurbs & Book Descriptions presents the copywriting skills a modern author needs and shows how they can be applied to create effective text for promoting novels.
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Wicked Racers (Outlaws of the Galaxy #5)
When outlaws Quincy and Harmony have a chance to steal a hundred million dollars in used bills, they plan the heist down to the last detail. Their alibi will
be that they are taking part in the Rubber Ball Rally, a race across the country from city to shining city.
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Modern Cozy Mystery (Genre Writer Series)
Modern cozy mysteries are popular with readers, but how do you go about writing one? You need to know the genre conventions (or tropes) – all the things a reader expects to find in this kind of story. In this book you’ll learn how to create a modern amateur sleuth; how to combine the investigation of a murder mystery with character relationships, all in a ‘cozy’ world with no excessive violence, bad language, or gratuitous sex scenes. You’ll also see how this genre combines elements from the traditional whodunit, private eye stories, thrillers, and the romance genre.
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Big Girls Don’t Die: A Cozy Mystery
When the police suspect her employer of murder, Millie Culpepper decides to investigate and clear his name. When the killer attacks more victims, including Millie, she teams up with a hot and hunky private detective to get to the bottom of the mystery. They discover a web of secrets and deceit, and that there are people who will go to any lengths to avoid the truth being revealed.
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Advice on planning and developing a series of novels drawing on methods used by television writers to create pitches and ‘bibles’ for a series. Explores what gives characters, storylines, and story worlds series potential.
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Frankie Rowan is a private detective with an uncanny knack for finding things – missing husbands, lost cats, large rubber pythons, the usual stuff. When her skills attract the attention of the preternatural community, she ends up with a very different set of mysteries in her case files. And a vampire as her partner and a thief as a temporary lodger.
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Meet Quincy Randall – conman, thief, and part-time idiot. Join him and his robot sidekick Floyd as they try to steal enough cash to make it back to civilisation.
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To write in a genre you need to know its conventions (or tropes) — what elements readers expect to find in the story and what plot structure you should use. You have to spend ages reading novels and watching films to learn these things — or you could read this in-depth series where the work has been done for you.
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In 1930s Britain, former stage magician Benjamin Vickery and his partner Malloy team up to solve mysteries and occasionally save the country from foreign spies.
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Anton Leyander and Edric Edison are performers and thieves in a land where magic is slowly returning. Magic in the form of dragons, the waking dead, ghosts, and demons. If they can stop bickering long enough, they might save the world.
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Rebellious robot repairman Stevie Houston must protect his mentor’s latest invention from a high-tech psycho that is tearing everything apart in its search for the device.
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When his despised brother-in-law is suspected of murder, down-at-heel private detective Joe Lucke must locate vital evidence to prove his innocence. A femme fatale, abusive Indian waiters, and an over-excited pit-bull are just some of the obstacles that stand in the way of him discovering Who Killed Big Dick?
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PAUL TOMLINSON 