The Novel Mentor

By Janet Pywell

When I first started writing, I looked everywhere for some guidance and help. Unfortunately, before the advent of the Internet, there wasn't much available.

Now, times have changed. I am a published author and I want to share my writing experiences to help my fellow writers avoid the mistakes I made. My aim is to make your writing journey more straightforward and structured so you can be filled with confidence.

To date, I have published:

The Mikky dos Santos thriller series

The Ronda George thriller series

Two Westbay Romance series

Two books of short stories

Ten Simple Steps for Writing Your Book:

1. Writing Tools
2. The Elevator Pitch, The Hook & The Blurb
3. Structure
4. Characters
5. Plot & Subplot
6. Location
7. Style, Tone & Themes
8. Research, Editing & Rewriting
9. Knowing your Audience
10. From Beginning to The End

In each chapter there are examples of how I have used my bullet point method for all my books.
It's simple. It's effective. It's smart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Janet Pywell
• Release date: Feb 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224918331

Janet Pywell

Author Janet Pywell's storytelling is as mesmerizing and exciting as her characters. Her domestic Ronda George Thrillers feature a female amateur sleuth who is a kickboxing and Masterchef champion. In her international crime thriller series - Art forger, artist and photographer Mikky dos Santos is a uniquely lovable female: a tough, tattooed, yet vulnerable heroine who will steal your heart. These books are a must-read for devotees of complex female sleuths - an emotional female James Bond. Janet has a background in travel and tourism and she writes using her knowledge of foreign places gained from living abroad and travelling extensively. She draws on all her experiences of people and places to create exciting crime thrillers with great characters and all the plot twists and turns any reader could ask for. Janet honed her writing skills by studying for a Masters degree at Queen's University, Belfast - one of the Russell Group of universities. Janet researches meticulously and often takes courses in subjects to ensure that her facts are detailed and accurate and it is this attention to detail that makes her novels so readable, authentic and thrilling. Subscribe to her newsletter here: https://www.subscribepage.com/janetpywell  

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Janet Pywell

Ten Simple Steps for Writing Your Book

The Novel Mentor

First published by Kingsdown Publishing 2022

Copyright © 2022 by Janet Pywell

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Contents

Foreword

1. 1. Writing Tools

2. 2. The Elevator Pitch, The Hook & The Blurb

3. 3. Structure

4. 4. Characters

5. 5. Plot & Subplot

6. 6. Location

7. 7. Style, Tone & Themes

8. 8. Research, Editing & Rewriting

9. 9. Knowing your Audience

10. 10. From Beginning to The End

The Novel Mentor

Janet’s books

About the Author

Foreword

When I first started writing, I looked everywhere for some guidance and help. Unfortunately, before the advent of the Internet, there wasn’t much available.

Now, times have changed. I am a published author and I want to share my writing experiences to help my fellow writers avoid the mistakes I made. My aim is to make your writing journey more straightforward and structured so you can be filled with confidence.

Writing isn’t difficult. There aren’t any secrets — but if there are, then I am about to share them with you in my Ten Simple Steps for Writing Your Book. You don’t want to spend hours reading information on How to write. You want a guideline and framework that will ease you through the process of writing your first book and/or subsequent novel(s).

About me: I worked in the travel and tourism industry for over thirty years before studying for a Master’s degree in Creative Writing at Queen’s University, Belfast.

I use my experiences of living and travelling abroad, and my knowledge of locations as an integral part of scenes in my novels. I research meticulously and often take short courses in subjects to ensure that the facts in my books are detailed and accurate. My readers tell me that it’s this attention to detail that makes my novels so