Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel
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Solve the MYSTERY of how to write and sell a KILLER story!
With the help of interactive exercises, mystery author and crime fiction critic Hallie Ephron gives you the momentum you need to turn a kernel of an idea into an intriguing mystery novel. You'll learn to capitalize on your writing strengths and shore up your weaknesses.
This comprehensive guide covers every aspect of mystery writing, including:
- planning, twisting the plot, and constructing a credible surprise ending
- creating a compelling sleuth and a worthy villain
- deceiving and revealing with red herrings and clues
- writing investigation, spine-tingling suspense, and dramatic action
- revising - from sharpening characters, to optimizing pace, to smithing words
- engaging the reader
By the time you finish reading part one of this book, you will have a blueprint for your entire story. Parts two and there take your blueprint from idea to well-polished novel. Part four is an insider's guide to getting it into an agent's or publisher's hands."
Hallie Ephron
Hallie Ephron is the New York Times bestselling author of Never Tell a Lie, Come and Find Me, There Was an Old Woman, and Night Night, Sleep Tight. For twelve years she was the crime fiction reviewer for the Boston Globe. The daughter of Hollywood screenwriters, she grew up in Beverly Hills, and lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
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Reviews for Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a useful handbook for beginning novelists in the mystery genre. It breaks down the writing process into basic building blocks, and while supplying excellent examples from published books, presents worksheets (space included in the book, and links included to print them from online) to assist the reader in developing their own work. The back of the book addresses the subject of publication at its most basic level; really, this book is 95% on the writing process, and publishing (especially traditional publishing) is so complex, it requires more books to address it at a helpful level.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was a highly informative read! I would recommend this book to those who are thinking about writing a mystery novel.
I bought this book a few years ago and finally read it. I am glad I took the step. This book helped me out on subjects and situations I thought I knew. I knew most genres have a “formula”. What I learned was what type of formula mystery novels have. I feel more confident now than before I read it. This book was in-depth enough to understand the nooks and crannies.
This book is easy to read and understand. There are many examples from different authors for the subject the author is trying to explain. Unfortunately, there were not any diagrams like I like, but I am still fine with that. This book is great for new to advanced writers. For me, you can always learn additional things no matter where you are in your writing.
I will use this book as a reference while writing and editing my mystery novel. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was such an excellent resource for learning how to start and plot a mystery novel.