Writing the Breakout Novel

<b>Take your fiction to the next level!</b><br><br>Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. 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.<br><br>Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share - regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace.<br><br>You'll learn to:<br><br>   • establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place<br>   • weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story<br>   • create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page<br>   • explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers<br>   • sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish<br>   • develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition<br><br><br>Then, using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors - including novelist <b>Anne Perry</b> - Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. You'll capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career.