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FORMULA FOR WRITING A COZY MYSTERY, PART 1: A GOOD "HOOK LAURA DISILVERIO is the national best-selling and award-winning author of 21 (and counting) novels, including standalone suspense novels and several mystery series. Her teenagers coaxed her into writing a young adult novel, and the result is the dystopian Incubation Trilogy, an Amazon bestseller. She is a past President of Sisters in Crime and HOW MANY WORDS IN A NOVEL: THE PERFECT WORD COUNT FOR YOUR Pitch the perfect word count. This 90,000-word guideline for how many words in a novel is just that, a guideline. Each genre (and sub-genre) has its own word count range; cozies tend to be shorter than other kinds of crime fiction, for example. Do check your comparable titles —recent debuts only—to make sure your story falls in that range. THE 6 RULES OF DOMESTIC SUSPENSE • CAREER AUTHORS And it all came true, I think, because of a condensed time frame. Condensing time makes your characters stay in the moment, forces the action to be deliberate. With the condensed timeline technique, whether a day, a week or a weekend, you as the author must be THE ART OF THE SENTENCE: WHAT EDITORS MEAN WHEN THEY TALKEND OF SENTENCE10 SENTENCE STORYONE SENTENCE STORYSENTENCES USING OF10 SENTENCE SHORT STORY3 SENTENCE STORY FOR KIDS THE ART OF THE SENTENCE: What Editors Mean When They Talk About Sentence Quality. When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner’s pick, a woodcarver’s gouge, a surgeon’s probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. If the sentences aren’t right, the story doesn’t matter. Sentences arethe bricks with
NUMBERS THAT MATTER IN BOOK PUBLISHING • CAREER AUTHORSBOOK PUBLISHING PRINT ON DEMANDBOOK PUBLISHING PRINT ON DEMANDPUBLISHING PRINT ON DEMANDPUBLISHING PRINT ON DEMAND Numbers that Matter in Book Publishing. In a January 1934 letter to Ernest Hemingway, editor Maxwell Perkins bemoans the fact that F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s latest book, Tender Is the Night , has sold only 15,000 copies. Perkins gossips that another writer, Stark Young, has sold 35,000 in “barely more than two months.”. 8 THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER DO IN A QUERY • CAREER AUTHORS 1. You got my name wrong. As in Dear Paul, Dear Pamela, Dear Mr. Munier, etc. This speaks to your professionalism, your eye for detail, and your ability to win friends and influence people. 2. The query is a part of an obvious mail merge. I know because the salutation reads Dear Sir or Madam, or Dear Paula Munier, or Dear Agent. THE VILLAIN CHECKLIST Harry Potter, the boy who lived, inspired millions of readers around the world. Was he an inspiration because he went to Hogwarts and became a wizard, or was he an inspiration because he was tested, challenged, and pursued by a “great & terrible” villain?. Without Voldemort, the adversity in Harry’s life would have been pedestrian. COMPARABLE TITLES 101: WHY YOU NEED GOOD COMPS AND HOW TO Comps are comparable titles. That is, profitable books similar to yours that can help support the idea that your project can find an audience and succeed in the marketplace. You should know what your comparable titles are, as they are the ammunition writers, agents, and editors all use to sell your work. Here’s why: Publishing is a LENGTH MATTERS: A WORD COUNT GUIDE BY GENRE • CAREER AUTHORS What follows is a rough guide to book length expectations in certain genres. Romance: 65,000–80,000 words (Most romance imprints have specific word count requirements that writers should know and observe before they submit.) Mystery: 80,000 words (Subgenres like cozies tend to be a bit shorter, often coming in at 70,000–80,000 words 14 (OR FOURTEEN) RULES FOR WRITING NUMBERS IN FICTION 14 (or Fourteen) Rules for Writing Numbers in Fiction. There are heaps and heaps of rules on the use of numbers in fiction, for example: 1. Write out numbers one to one hundred; 101 and above, use numerals. CORRECT: Published in thirty-eight languages, Barbara Cartland wrote723 novels. 2.
FORMULA FOR WRITING A COZY MYSTERY, PART 1: A GOOD "HOOK LAURA DISILVERIO is the national best-selling and award-winning author of 21 (and counting) novels, including standalone suspense novels and several mystery series. Her teenagers coaxed her into writing a young adult novel, and the result is the dystopian Incubation Trilogy, an Amazon bestseller. She is a past President of Sisters in Crime and HOW MANY WORDS IN A NOVEL: THE PERFECT WORD COUNT FOR YOUR Pitch the perfect word count. This 90,000-word guideline for how many words in a novel is just that, a guideline. Each genre (and sub-genre) has its own word count range; cozies tend to be shorter than other kinds of crime fiction, for example. Do check your comparable titles —recent debuts only—to make sure your story falls in that range. THE 6 RULES OF DOMESTIC SUSPENSE • CAREER AUTHORS And it all came true, I think, because of a condensed time frame. Condensing time makes your characters stay in the moment, forces the action to be deliberate. With the condensed timeline technique, whether a day, a week or a weekend, you as the author must be THE ART OF THE SENTENCE: WHAT EDITORS MEAN WHEN THEY TALKEND OF SENTENCE10 SENTENCE STORYONE SENTENCE STORYSENTENCES USING OF10 SENTENCE SHORT STORY3 SENTENCE STORY FOR KIDS THE ART OF THE SENTENCE: What Editors Mean When They Talk About Sentence Quality. When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner’s pick, a woodcarver’s gouge, a surgeon’s probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. If the sentences aren’t right, the story doesn’t matter. Sentences arethe bricks with
NUMBERS THAT MATTER IN BOOK PUBLISHING • CAREER AUTHORSBOOK PUBLISHING PRINT ON DEMANDBOOK PUBLISHING PRINT ON DEMANDPUBLISHING PRINT ON DEMANDPUBLISHING PRINT ON DEMAND Numbers that Matter in Book Publishing. In a January 1934 letter to Ernest Hemingway, editor Maxwell Perkins bemoans the fact that F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s latest book, Tender Is the Night , has sold only 15,000 copies. Perkins gossips that another writer, Stark Young, has sold 35,000 in “barely more than two months.”. 8 THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER DO IN A QUERY • CAREER AUTHORS 1. You got my name wrong. As in Dear Paul, Dear Pamela, Dear Mr. Munier, etc. This speaks to your professionalism, your eye for detail, and your ability to win friends and influence people. 2. The query is a part of an obvious mail merge. I know because the salutation reads Dear Sir or Madam, or Dear Paula Munier, or Dear Agent. THE VILLAIN CHECKLIST Harry Potter, the boy who lived, inspired millions of readers around the world. Was he an inspiration because he went to Hogwarts and became a wizard, or was he an inspiration because he was tested, challenged, and pursued by a “great & terrible” villain?. Without Voldemort, the adversity in Harry’s life would have been pedestrian. SHOULD YOU FICTIONALIZE YOUR SETTING? • CAREER AUTHORS Ensure you don't miss a single post, tip, or discussion by signing up for our monthly email digest. We'll also send out the occasionalnotice about book
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CAREER AUTHOR'S EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH HOMER! • CAREER A genre legend talks the Odyssey, the Illiad, secrets of classical storytelling, and what it’s like writing epic tomes. Recent advancements in time travel have opened up new promotional possibilities for late and legendary authors seeking to spread theword.
17 PERFECT WAYS TO END A CHAPTER • CAREER AUTHORS How should I end a chapter? The very question is an answer to that—because you’re going to keep reading to find out, right? And that is the exact point of a chapter’s end: to get you to be unable to resist turning the page to start the next chapter.. We’ve talked about chapter length here on Career Authors, and I insist that any careful reader—like you all are—has an instinct about ALMOST 10 TIPS TO MAKE YOUR READER LAUGH • CAREER AUTHORS 8. Go easy on puns. A little goes a long way. Use language in a creative, humorous way, but keep it conversational. Do not force a character to say something totally out of character just for the sake of a joke. 9. Polish the funny parts even more than the other parts ofyour story.
HOW TO WRITE A BOOK SERIES THAT PLEASES READERS OLD AND by Marty Wingate. A reader settles down with the next book in her favorite mystery series. Whether it’s Book Two or Five or Twelve, the reader is looking forward to not only solving the book’s mystery, but also getting together with the group of old friends—and enemies—that weave their way in and out of this series. 8 THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER DO IN A QUERY • CAREER AUTHORS 1. You got my name wrong. As in Dear Paul, Dear Pamela, Dear Mr. Munier, etc. This speaks to your professionalism, your eye for detail, and your ability to win friends and influence people. 2. The query is a part of an obvious mail merge. I know because the salutation reads Dear Sir or Madam, or Dear Paula Munier, or Dear Agent. THE ART OF THE SENTENCE: WHAT EDITORS MEAN WHEN THEY TALK THE ART OF THE SENTENCE: What Editors Mean When They Talk About Sentence Quality. When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner’s pick, a woodcarver’s gouge, a surgeon’s probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. If the sentences aren’t right, the story doesn’t matter. Sentences arethe bricks with
YOUR PUBLISHER CANCELED YOUR SERIES: NOW WHAT? • CAREER Paula Munier. PAULA MUNIER is the Senior Literary Agent and Content Strategist for Talcott Notch Literary. Her specialties include crime fiction, women’s fiction, upmarket fiction, MG and crossover YA, high-concept SFF, and nonfiction. THE GRAND ENTRANCE: HOW TO INTRODUCE YOUR PROTAGONIST SO THE GRAND ENTRANCE: How to introduce your protagonist so that readers care. First impressions count, in fiction as in life. You have one chance to introduce your protagonist in a way that endears readers—and you should make the most of it. Your hero needs to make a grand entrance. Anything less is a missed opportunity—one that youmay never
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