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Also by Donald Maass:

The Breakout Novelist, March 2011
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Writing the Breakout Novel, August 2002
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WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL
By: Donald Maass

Writing Advice from a top agent and his best-selling client

Writers Digest Books
August 2002
On Sale: August 15, 2002
256 pages
ISBN: 158297182X
EAN: 9781582971827
Paperback
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A breakout novel is one that rises out if its category - such as literary fiction, mystery, romance, or thriller - and hits the bestseller charts.

Maass explains the elements that all breakout novels share and shows readers how to use these elements to write a novel that has a good chance of succeeding in a crowded marketplace.

They'll learn to:

- Create a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place

- Develop larger-than-life characters

- Sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish

- Weave sub-plots into the main action

- Explore universal themes that will interest a large audience.

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