Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level By Donald Maass, Anne Perry (Foreword) ISBN: 9780898799958 Published: 2001 Number of Pages: 256 Edition: 1st Binding: Hardcover

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Writers Digest Books Description: A breakout novel is one that rises out of its category - such as romance, mystery or thriller - and hits the bestseller lists. All aspiring novelists dream of achieving this success as do many published novelists who remain stuck in what author Donald Maass calls "midlist hell." In Writing the Breakout Novel, Maass explains the elements that all breakout novels share and shows readers how to use these elements to write a novel that has a good chance of succeeding within the crowded marketplace. From creating a high-stakes premise to building larger-than-life characters to sustaining a high degree of conflict and tension, Maass covers all the key ingredients of this type of novel. Using several of his clients, including best-selling novelist Anne Perry, as case studies, Maass provides real-life, insider examples to show how this type of novel can generate agent and publisher interest, creating or enhancing a novelist's career.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  2001022036
   - LC control Number: 2001022036

National Bibliography Number: GBA1-Y3362

International Standard Book Number: 0898799953 (alk. paper): 0898799953 (alk. paper) :
   - Terms of availability: $19.99
   - Terms of availability: $20.00

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: PN3365
   - Item number: .M245 2001

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 21
   - Classification number: 808.3

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Maass, Donald.

Title Statement
   - Title: Writing the breakout novel /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Donald Maass ; foreword by Anne Perry.

Edition Statement: 1st ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Cincinnati, OH :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Writer's Digest Books,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2001.

Projected Publication Date: 0106

Physical Description
   - Extent: 264 p. ;
   - Extent: p. cm.
   - Dimensions: 24 cm.

General Note: Includes index.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Fiction
   - General subdivision: Authorship
   - General subdivision: Authorship.
   - General subdivision: Marketing.
   - General subdivision: Technique.