Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist

Jump Starting Your Inner Novelist is a concise manual that provides inspiration, motivation and practical tools for crafting award-winning novels. After teaching Creative Writing and Publishing at Evening at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia's Writer's Studio for nine years and writing five published novels, including a national gold medal winner in the fiction genre, I decided to record my thoughts and ideas about creating successful novels and weave them into a practical guide for writers. During my years at Evening at Emory, I helped students fine-tune their skills concerning all stages of the writing process: from first draft to day of publication. This guide, co-authored by my friend and editor, Dennis De Rose, will provide you with a set of tools to help you address issues such as developing captivating scenes, creating vivid descriptive specific details, living in the setting, editing and grammar and other crucial elements to help you write a potentially successful novel.