Bøger udgivet af Olivia Atwater

Write better prose. Get better readers.Readers enjoy a book more when they understand what's going on-but a lot of common writing advice can make your prose more confusing for readers! Genre authors: Stop listening to writing advice from your peers in literary fiction, and start asking questions about how to make your writing more accessible to the general market.In this short, accessible book, you will learn how readers process writing on a narrative level, on a paragraph level, and on a sentence level. You'll also learn how to:use the classic parlour scene to clarify more than just murderhelp your busiest and most distracted readers keep up with your dialoguecheat your way through gameshows using syntactic ambiguityuse the semi-colon as it was actually meant to be usedun-decapitate your headless clauses"show, then tell"This guide comes with several well-explained rules which you can immediately apply to your work, complete with before-and-after examples.Learn Reader-Friendly Writing for Authors, and help your readers follow the story.

Write better blurbs. Get better readers.Writing book descriptions for genre fiction (or blurbs, as some authors call them) requires a completely different skill set from writing full-length novels. For many authors, blurbs are a last distasteful obstacle they must overcome before they''re allowed to sell their book-but it doesn''t have to be that way! Writing blurbs is far easier with a step-by-step guide and a bit of helpful advice.In this short, accessible book, you will learn how readers select their next novel, and how to aim your blurb at the right readers. You''ll also learn how to:master the art of blurbs as movie trailerscompile a one-click listwrite a tempting hookend your blurb on an invisible question"tell, don''t show"use reader feedback in your blurbsThis guide comes complete with several examples of real blurbs, both before and after editing, with clear explanations of every change.Learn Better Blurb Writing for Authors, and take the stress out of blurb writing.