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Your First Novel

A Published Author and a Top Agent Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream

Author Ann Rittenberg, Laura Whitcomb
Foreword by Dennis Lehane
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$22.00 US
Penguin Adult HC/TR | Writer's Digest Books
6"W x 9"H | 13 oz | 20 per carton
On sale Sep 08, 2006 | 300 Pages | 9781582973883
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In Your First Novel, novelist Laura Whitcomb and seasoned literary agent Ann Rittenberg team up to provide you with the skills you need to write your dream novel and the savvy business know-how to get it published. In this all-in-one resource, you'll discover essential novel-writing techniques, such as:

   • How to best structure your research so that you can save time later
   • How to card your story before you start writing
   • What to consider when developing your cast of characters
   • How to adapt classic story structures to fit your own ideas


…and insider information on what it takes to get published, including:

   • What agents do at those three-hour power lunches—and how it affects you
   • What makes an agent instantly reject a manuscript
   • How to correctly translate submission guidelines
   • What happens if you get multiple offers—or no offers at all


Plus, learn about the publishing process from the firsthand accounts of such noted authors as Dennis Lehane, Kathryn Harrison, Jim Fusilli, Kathleen George, and others!
Ann Rittenberg View titles by Ann Rittenberg
Laura Whitcomb grew up in Pasadena, California, where she lived in a mildly haunted house for 12 years. She has taught English in California and Hawaii. The winner of three Kay Snow Writing Awards, she is involved in community theater and volunteers backstage in various productions, plays a wrench in the pirate reenactment group BOOM, and sings madrigals with the Sherwood Renaissance Singers. She is the author of A Certain Slant of Light and lives in Portland, Oregon. View titles by Laura Whitcomb

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In Your First Novel, novelist Laura Whitcomb and seasoned literary agent Ann Rittenberg team up to provide you with the skills you need to write your dream novel and the savvy business know-how to get it published. In this all-in-one resource, you'll discover essential novel-writing techniques, such as:

   • How to best structure your research so that you can save time later
   • How to card your story before you start writing
   • What to consider when developing your cast of characters
   • How to adapt classic story structures to fit your own ideas


…and insider information on what it takes to get published, including:

   • What agents do at those three-hour power lunches—and how it affects you
   • What makes an agent instantly reject a manuscript
   • How to correctly translate submission guidelines
   • What happens if you get multiple offers—or no offers at all


Plus, learn about the publishing process from the firsthand accounts of such noted authors as Dennis Lehane, Kathryn Harrison, Jim Fusilli, Kathleen George, and others!

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Ann Rittenberg View titles by Ann Rittenberg
Laura Whitcomb grew up in Pasadena, California, where she lived in a mildly haunted house for 12 years. She has taught English in California and Hawaii. The winner of three Kay Snow Writing Awards, she is involved in community theater and volunteers backstage in various productions, plays a wrench in the pirate reenactment group BOOM, and sings madrigals with the Sherwood Renaissance Singers. She is the author of A Certain Slant of Light and lives in Portland, Oregon. View titles by Laura Whitcomb

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