Write away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life

Write away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life

by ElizabethGeorge (Author)

Synopsis

Elizabeth George is one of the most successful writers of crime fiction in the world. Her twelve novels have appeared on bestseller lists in the UK, USA and Australia, and several of them have been dramatised by BBC Television as the Inspector Lynley Mysteries. She has also written a collection of short stories and edited a crime anthology. Now she shares this wealth of experience with would-be novelists, and with crime fiction fans. Drawing extensively on her own work, and that of other bestselling writers including Stephen King, Harper Lee, Dennis Lehane and many others, she illustrates her points about plotting, characterisation and technique with great clarity. She also includes extracts from her own Journals - the diaries she keeps as she writes each of her novels - and these give us an unprecedented insight into the creative mind, with all its highs and lows.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 14 Feb 2005

ISBN 10: 0340832096
ISBN 13: 9780340832097
Book Overview: An inspiring template for any would-be author of fiction from one of the most successful writers of crime fiction in the world

Media Reviews
An impressively thorough and down-to-earth guide . . . a perfect DIY guide for the determined new novelist . . . deserves to be in print for many years to come. * Terence Blacker, Sunday Times *
Indispensable * Mariella Frostrup *
'It all adds up to a hugely instructive and practical book' * Writing Magazine *
Author Bio
Elizabeth George is the author of highly acclaimed novels of psychological suspense. She won the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France. In 1990 she was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery fiction, the MIMI. Her novels have now been adapted for television by the BBC. An Edgar and Macavity Nominee as well as a New York Times and international bestselling author, Elizabeth George lives on Whidbey Island in the state of Washington.