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    The Anatomy of a Best Seller: 3 Steps to Deconstruct Winning Books and Teach Yourself Craft
    The Anatomy of a Best Seller: 3 Steps to Deconstruct Winning Books and Teach Yourself Craft
    The Anatomy of a Best Seller: 3 Steps to Deconstruct Winning Books and Teach Yourself Craft
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    The Anatomy of a Best Seller: 3 Steps to Deconstruct Winning Books and Teach Yourself Craft

    Written by Sacha Black

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    About this audiobook

    Do you wish you could write like your favorite authors? Do you want to improve your writing? If you want to power up your stories, write with your readers in mind, and deliver what the market wants, this book is for you.

    In The Anatomy of a Best Seller, you’ll discover:

    • A step-by-step guide to deconstructing your favorite books so you can utilize the tools of winning authors.
    • Tips and tricks for breaking down everything from sentence level prose to plot, pacing, characters, story arcs, and more.
    • A comprehensive guide to understanding your market and what readers want.
    • Tactics for turning the lessons and tools you find into practical prose and stories.

    The Anatomy of a Best Seller is a comprehensive guide that will help you break down the best books in your genre, understand how and why they work, and then learn how to do it yourself.

    By the end of the book, you’ll be armed with the methods you need to deconstruct best sellers, understand the tools those authors are using, and how to implement them in your own work.

    If you like dark humor and learning through examples, then you’ll love Sacha Black’s guide to deconstructing winning books. Read The Anatomy of a Best Seller today and start writing your best seller.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlas Black Publishing
    Release dateDec 30, 2022
    ISBN9781913236151
    The Anatomy of a Best Seller: 3 Steps to Deconstruct Winning Books and Teach Yourself Craft
    Author

    Sacha Black

    Sacha Black has five obsessions; words, expensive shoes, conspiracy theories, self-improvement, and breaking the rules. She also has the mind of a perpetual sixteen-year-old, only with slightly less drama and slightly more bills. Sacha writes books about people with magical powers and other books about the art of writing. She lives in Hertfordshire, England, with her wife and genius, giant of a son. When she’s not writing, she can be found laughing inappropriately loud, blogging, sniffing musty old books, fangirling film and TV soundtracks, or thinking up new ways to break the rules.

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