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How to Write Killer Fiction
$13.95
Writing is all about creating an experience for the reader. Whether you’re giving them a brain-teasing puzzle or an adrenaline-soaked emotional roller coaster ride, this book helps you shape your fiction to create maximum enjoyment for your readers.
The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery
$14.00
Are you burning to write a mystery novel, but can't find the time? This step-by-step guide will lead you through the process - from tricks to writing dialogue, to developing a compelling killer - and promises that in 52 weekends, you'll have completed a chilling mystery.
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Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America
Sue Grafton, Ed.
Description
You're a sleuth in your soul and a writer at heart. You can't resist the lure of the lurid, the thrill of the chase, the artful turn of a word, and the battle of wits in solving crimes of the imaginary kind. Still, as you know, mystery fiction is a species all its own, and writing it can be a special type of puzzle. But this is a special book, a writer's conference of sorts. In this book, your partners in literary criminology are among today's top mystery authors. Through informal essays, they'll show you how the pieces fit.
More than a score of writers are represented here: Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran reveal the perils and pleasures of collaboration; Sara Paretsky - creator of the V.I. Warshawski series - comments on the promise and problems of inventing a recurring character; Tony Hillerman argues against plot outlines; John Lutz writes of endings and suggests knowing where you're going before you set out. With this book, you'll learn how to make your stories more taut, more real, more immediate, and more fraught with tension. You’ll also find special guidelines for creating clues, dropping red herrings, and writing medical, legal, historical, true crime, and young adult mysteries. The solutions are up to you. But now you're armed with all the clues you need to solve the mystery ... of how to write a mystery.
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