Table of Contents
CONTENTS
PART 1 WRITING YOUR BOOK
The bones of your book
Are you a pantser or a plotter?
Doing your research
Watching and noting
New Year, new conflict
A sense of time and place
Full of character
Style and tone
NaNoWriMo
You’ve written your novel. What next?
Preparing your manuscript for publication
“Oh, it’s wonderful, darling!”
Editing – do I really need it?
Paid editing – do I really need it?
The next book
PART II GENRES
Crime, mystery and thrillers
Romantic stuff
Speculative fiction
Memoir
Historical fiction
‘Women’s fiction’
PART III YOU, THE WRITER
Why do you write?
Something stopping you writing that book?
You don’t want to be alone!
Reading whilst writing
Your writing space
In the writer’s head
PART IV PUBLISHING YOUR BOOK
The traditional publishing route
Self-publishing the DIY way
Self-publishing with expert help
PART V SELLING YOUR BOOK
Pricing your book
Selling your book – the paper version
Selling your book – the ebook version
How to launch your book
How to sell more books – write more books!
Further Reading
Some useful web and blogsites