Beyond the Style Manual
Bundle #1
by Kris James, Laura E. Koons, Stefanie Spangler Buswell
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Pub Date 20 Aug 2015 | Archive Date 14 Sep 2015
Description
Hook, Tagline, and Sinker, by Kris James
Hook, Tagline, and Sinker is a guide for anyone who wants to learn how to write concise, targeted, catchy book descriptions.
Potential readers’ first introduction to your writing occurs when they experience your book description. Making that short pitch shine is critical to the success of your book, no matter where you market, share, or shelve it.
Hook, Tagline, and Sinker will teach you some great techniques, give some tips and tricks, and explain pitfalls to avoid. The most in-depth, accurate, and detailed description guide available today, this 18,000-word booklet is a valuable resource for everyone looking to improve their description-writing skills.
Get to the Point, by Stefanie Spangler Buswell
A no-nonsense guide for authors interested in taking their writing to the next level, Get to the Point offers clear, simple tips for tightening your sentences, improving your story’s pacing, increasing tension, and generating a more entertaining voice. Its techniques will aid you in strengthening awareness of unwanted habits, gaining clearer understanding of unnecessary description, and informing solid strategies for concise, powerful prose.
Top-notch writing makes every novel come alive. This guide booklet will help you learn to:
– Identify hidden redundancies
– Cut clunky phrases and their hangers-on
– Rescue tension and pacing from lazy adverbs
– Harness the power of the metaphor
– Recycle those info dumps
– Discover how to show and when to tell
– Practice the art of the subtle foreshadow
– Balance dialogue tags with conversation
– Separate descriptive essentials from the everyday
– Apply informed context to avoid over explaining
– Retain POV control to eliminate headhopping
– Avoid misleading with ordinary overkill
At 13,000 words, Get to the Point is packed with informed tips and tricks that will help you elevate your writing to the next level as you craft a compelling novel.
He Said, She Said, by Laura E. Koons
Dialogue that drones on, clutters the page, or stalls the scene can ruin even the best of novels. Learn to avoid common dialogue pitfalls, balance your writing, and dazzle your readers, editors, and agents with snappy scenes and smooth-as-silk transitions between dialogue and narrative. He Said, She Said is packed with innovative instruction, detailed information, and essential exercises to help your dialogue skills mesmerize and impress.
The information offered in He Said, She Said is easy to understand and simple to implement. In this guide book you will learn:
How to balance realistic dialogue with your narrative style, including addressing accents and learning the 4 things to leave out of your dialogue
5 ways to seamlessly insert dialogue into your scene, such as expressing gestures and employing summary dialogue
7 tricks to getting the most out of dialogue tags: everything from finding the right intensity level to avoiding POV issues
4 ways to improve your dialogue crafting skills, with prompts and exercises included
Don’t waste an opportunity for success by settling for mediocre dialogue in your novel. Let He Said, She Said help you craft your characters’ exchanges with ease and skill.
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| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 3581111111114 |
| PRICE | US$7.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Kaye T, Reviewer
Very interesting book, or should I say "books" since there are three in one here. Good tips and breakdown of creative writing, and good descriptions of genre and improving style. My main focus is teaching technical and business writing, but could see this being a good supplimental text for college writers. It would also be good for those who want to write novels and such too. Would highly recommend.
Sarah R, Educator
An excellent trio of writing reference guides, each one concise and easy to digest. Although each volume is well-written, I question the inclusion of the "Hook, Tagline, and Sinker" guide in this particular package. The second and third manuals are aimed at making writing more engaging and active, while the first is directed at framing and marketing a project. It would be helpful if each title in this package of guides was targeted at a similar stage in the writing process.
Aside from that question, however, I really loved these guides! The advice is helpful, and the tone encouraging. Without talking down to their readers, the three Beyond the Style Manual writers offer advice on how to write clear, intelligent prose and dialogue, and how to maintain an active, specific voice in order to keep readers engaged.
Amanda P, Librarian
This bundle may help aspiring writers improve their craft. Learn how to write a powerful book description with "Hook, Tagline, and Sinker." Edit your work in progress using "Get to the Point." Write effective dialogue with "He Said, She Said."
Each one of these books has useful gems. "Get to the Point" is the best written in this series. Though, "Hook, Tagline, and Sinker" is a little repetitive, this guide still contains good advise. The author of "He Said, She Said" over explains at times, but overall reinforces the concepts for writing better conversations.
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