Jackson Dean Chase - Ultimate Authors Guide: Omnibus 1: A Masterclass in Writing Dynamite Story Hooks and Characters

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This special omnibus collects the first two volumes of The Ultimate Authors Guide series: Writing Dynamite Story Hooks and Writing Heroes and Villains. Although there are plenty of nods to speculative fiction, this is universal info any author can use regardless of genre or literary aspirations, and it applies whether you write for adults, teens, or kids.

My books have helped thousands of authors, from beginner to advanced. No matter where you are in your writer career, the information is easy to understand and easy to learn. There is no fluff or filler, no boring anecdotes. Those arent the kind of books I like or can learn from, so thats not the kind of book I write.

And when I say easy to learn, I also mean fun to read. I want my writing guides to feel like a casual conversation between us. So lean back and lets talk about how to write bestselling fiction!

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USA TODAY Bestselling Author

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P.S.: As I mentioned before, the contents of the books contained in this omnibus were previously published as:

• Writing Dynamite Story Hooks
• Writing Heroes & Villains

I just want to point out that they are reprinted here exactly as they appear in their current, individual editions. Its also worth noting that the content of these books originally appeared in a different form as:

• How to Start Your Novel
• How to Write Realistic Characters
• How to Write Realistic Men
• How to Write Realistic Women

These books were all revised and updated when they became part of The Ultimate Authors Guide series.

P.P.S.: Want more of my writing secrets? The second omnibus in this series focuses on science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related subgenres like post-apocalyptic fiction.

Your first line sells the book. Your last line sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane, author of Kiss Me Deadly

Welcome, friend, to the Ultimate Authors Guide to Writing Dynamite Story Hooks. This is an expanded edition of my breakthrough bestseller, How to Start your Novel, with new ways to hook readers, new story secrets, and even more examples from the greatest authors of yesterday and today.

How much new stuff is there? Well, this edition is fifty pages longer than the first, so Id say a lot! Ive increased the number of successful ways to begin your story from seven to ten, restored original material cut for space, and included examples for all these genres:

• Crime/Hardboiled/Noir
• Fantasy
• Historical Fiction
• Memoir
• Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
• Romance
• Science Fiction
• Young Adult

This book covers the top 10 ways successful authors hook readers. All smart, powerful stuff. I lay it all out for you in easy to learn examples with a fun, casual tone in my comments. The first things well cover is how to hook with:

1. Action
2. Dialogue
3. Hero or Sidekick
4. Meeting
5. Monologue
6. Mystery
7. Premonition
8. Profound Statement
9. Setting
10. Villain or Victims

After you learn the top 10 ways to hook readers, were going to cover the top 10 ways to lose readers:

1. Antiquated Writing Style, Foreign Language, or Technobabble
2. Correspondence or Diary
3. Dream or Flashback
4. Nothing Happens
5. Phone Call
6. Prologue or Frame
7. Telling or Info-Dumping
8. Unlikable or Flat Hero
9. Waking Up
10. Weather

I know some of you are stubborn and will want to use the wrong ways no matter what. Thats why Im going to show you how to break the rules and make the wrong ways work. When you add the fixed versions, youre really getting twice as many successful hooks!

This is book is for anyone serious about the craft of writing fictionfrom short stories to novels, even memoir. Which reminds me, the memoir section has been totally revised and expanded, making it much more useful to nonfiction authors. It even has ideas for celebrity memoirsand ideas you can take from them to write your own.

Theres another added benefit to expanding the memoir section: Because most memoirs begin with interior monologue, this essentially doubles the number of ideas and excerpts for how novelists can hook fiction readers with their characters thoughts and feelings.

At this point in my career, Ive written over thirty books, won and been nominated for multiple awards, and hit the USA TODAY bestseller list. Writing Dynamite Story Hooks condenses all my years of experience into one fun to read, easy to learn from guidea masterclass I know will inspire you to write bestsellers of your own.