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How To Write A Novel: The Fundamentals of Fiction
From the first editor of Andy Weir’s International Bestselling phenomenon The Martian, Bryan Thomas Schmidt’s How To Write A Novel will take you step by step through the process of writing your novel from idea to edit. It offers interviews and Sidebars from top selling authors, a plethora of examples from bestselling novels across the genre spectrum, and an extensive bibliography, as well as charts, illustrations, and more. As #1 New York Times bestseller Scott Sigler puts “How To Write A Novel is a bootcamp on how to go from 'aspiring writer' to 'novelist'; a comprehensive toolkit for writing your novel — start here, you can thank me later.” Your dream of being a novelist starts and ends here as you make it happen.
277 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 18, 2018
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Bryan Thomas Schmidt
52 books169 followersBryan Thomas Schmidt is a national bestselling author and Hugo nominated editor of adult and children’s speculative fiction. His fourth novel, Simon Says is a page-turning near future thriller. His debut novel, The Worker Prince received Honorable Mention on Barnes & Noble Book Club’s Year’s Best Science Fiction Releases for 2011. His children’s books, 102 More Hilarious Dinosaur Books For Kids and Abraham Lincoln: Dinosaur Hunter- Land Of Legends appeared from Delabarre Publishing in 2012. His short stories have appeared in Tales of The Talisman, Straight Outta Tombstone, The X-Files: Secret Agendas, Predator: If It Bleeds, Decision Points and many more.
He edited the anthologies Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6 for Flying Pen Press, Beyond The Sun for Fairwood Press, Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera For a New Age for Every Day, Shattered Shields with coeditor Jennifer Brozek (Baen, 2014), Mission: Tomorrow (Baen, 2015), Galactic Games (Baen, 2016), Decision Points (WordFire, 2016), Little Green Men--Attack! with Robin Wayne Bailey (Baen, 2017), Monster Hunter Files with Larry Correia (Baen, 2017), Joe Ledger: Unstoppable with Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin's Griffin, 2017), Predator: If It Bleeds and Infinite Stars And Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers both for Titan Books, 2017 and 2019.
As editor, he has edited books for Grail Quest Books, Wordfire Press, Delabarre Publishing and authors including Andy Weir's The Martian which hit number 6 on the New York Times Bestsellers list in 2014, Alan Dean Foster, Mike Resnick, Frank Herbert, Todd McCaffrey, Tracy Hickman, Angie Fox, Leon C. Metz , Ellen C. Maze, David Mark Brown, and more.
He’s also the author of the bestselling nonfiction book How To Write A Novel: The Fundamentals of Fiction.
Bryan can be found online at Facebook, on Twitter as @BryanThomasS and @sffwrtcht and via his website.
He edited the anthologies Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6 for Flying Pen Press, Beyond The Sun for Fairwood Press, Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera For a New Age for Every Day, Shattered Shields with coeditor Jennifer Brozek (Baen, 2014), Mission: Tomorrow (Baen, 2015), Galactic Games (Baen, 2016), Decision Points (WordFire, 2016), Little Green Men--Attack! with Robin Wayne Bailey (Baen, 2017), Monster Hunter Files with Larry Correia (Baen, 2017), Joe Ledger: Unstoppable with Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin's Griffin, 2017), Predator: If It Bleeds and Infinite Stars And Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers both for Titan Books, 2017 and 2019.
As editor, he has edited books for Grail Quest Books, Wordfire Press, Delabarre Publishing and authors including Andy Weir's The Martian which hit number 6 on the New York Times Bestsellers list in 2014, Alan Dean Foster, Mike Resnick, Frank Herbert, Todd McCaffrey, Tracy Hickman, Angie Fox, Leon C. Metz , Ellen C. Maze, David Mark Brown, and more.
He’s also the author of the bestselling nonfiction book How To Write A Novel: The Fundamentals of Fiction.
Bryan can be found online at Facebook, on Twitter as @BryanThomasS and @sffwrtcht and via his website.
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February 2, 2019
Who Knew that Writing A Novel is Diabolically Hard Work!
A Wonderfully Organizied Step by Step Model on " How to Write A Novel" .There is no right or wrong way to approach writing your own novel. This a Great Handbook on all aspects of assisting any individual who has the passion and desire to complete the challenging project of writing a novel. Richard Weintraub
A Wonderfully Organizied Step by Step Model on " How to Write A Novel" .There is no right or wrong way to approach writing your own novel. This a Great Handbook on all aspects of assisting any individual who has the passion and desire to complete the challenging project of writing a novel. Richard Weintraub
April 20, 2019
Schmidt provides a well thought out guide with proven examples of how to write a novel. His tone is conversational, yet professional. Not only was the book informative, it was an enjoyable read. *Highly* recommended for anyone seeking to write a novel!
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