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Chapter One: Everything You Wanted to Know About Starting Your Novel
Offers a collection of opening chapters for a novel, provides an analysis of each one, and suggests ways they could be developed into a full-length novel
198 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1999
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About the author
Jennifer Bacia
27 books17 followersJennifer Bacia's first suspense thriller, Indecent Ambition, (original title Shadows of Power) was a debut author’s dream.
-The novel sold for a record-breaking advance.
-It became an international best seller and Book Club Choice.
-The movie rights were optioned, sales were made to leading foreign publishers and an extract featured in Cosmopolitan magazine.
Now the author of 8 successful novels and dozens of short stories, Jennifer promises her readers a book they simply can’t put down.
Her best-selling suspense thrillers, A Very Public Scandal, Indecent Ambition, Never Forget Me and Whisper Her Name are irresistible fast-paced stories featuring strong, intelligent women set against the glamour and intrigue of international backgrounds.
She also writes contemporary domestic fiction that most women will relate to. Everything to Lose, Best Kept Secrets, One Door Closes and The Almost Perfect Lover are rich involving stories that focus on women's dreams aspirations, illusions and regrets.
Jennifer has also published a guide to writing called Bestseller! How to Write Novels that Sell based on the creative writing course she was invited to establish at Bond University. Bestseller! is full of practical advice and offers a unique analysis of what made her own debut novel so appealing to publishers.
Jennifer's surname is probably Italian in origin and is pronounced as ‘batcher’
You can contact Jennifer on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jenniferbaci... or visit her website at www.jenniferbacia.net where her novels and writing guide are available.
PLEASE NOTE SOME TITLES HAVE BEEN CHANGED:
A VERY PUBLIC SCANDAL was first published as Mask of Paradise.
WHISPER HER NAME was first published as Angel of Honour
NEVER FORGET ME was first published as Whisper from the Gods.
INDECENT AMBITION was first published as Shadows of Power.
ONE DOOR CLOSES was first published as Table for Three.
-The novel sold for a record-breaking advance.
-It became an international best seller and Book Club Choice.
-The movie rights were optioned, sales were made to leading foreign publishers and an extract featured in Cosmopolitan magazine.
Now the author of 8 successful novels and dozens of short stories, Jennifer promises her readers a book they simply can’t put down.
Her best-selling suspense thrillers, A Very Public Scandal, Indecent Ambition, Never Forget Me and Whisper Her Name are irresistible fast-paced stories featuring strong, intelligent women set against the glamour and intrigue of international backgrounds.
She also writes contemporary domestic fiction that most women will relate to. Everything to Lose, Best Kept Secrets, One Door Closes and The Almost Perfect Lover are rich involving stories that focus on women's dreams aspirations, illusions and regrets.
Jennifer has also published a guide to writing called Bestseller! How to Write Novels that Sell based on the creative writing course she was invited to establish at Bond University. Bestseller! is full of practical advice and offers a unique analysis of what made her own debut novel so appealing to publishers.
Jennifer's surname is probably Italian in origin and is pronounced as ‘batcher’
You can contact Jennifer on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jenniferbaci... or visit her website at www.jenniferbacia.net where her novels and writing guide are available.
PLEASE NOTE SOME TITLES HAVE BEEN CHANGED:
A VERY PUBLIC SCANDAL was first published as Mask of Paradise.
WHISPER HER NAME was first published as Angel of Honour
NEVER FORGET ME was first published as Whisper from the Gods.
INDECENT AMBITION was first published as Shadows of Power.
ONE DOOR CLOSES was first published as Table for Three.
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May 8, 2017
There are writers who set out to exploit a genre, develop a formula, and are successful. One such is Janet Evanovich, whose 'Stephanie Plum' mysteries are currently riding high. Before that Ms Evanovich was a successful romance writer.
Then there is Ms Bacia, who writes in the over-wrought women-finding-themselves with a background of pop-psychology-feminism genre. How successfully is a moot point. Not very elegantly or with much literary success.
Her books tend to the plot development heights of First X happened, then Y, and exploits the 'now I'm going to over-describe with the use of strings of adjectives and adverbs' style of writing.
In one book by Ms Bacia the heroine attends an 8 week creative writing class and unlocks her pent-up talents (and has an affair which turns to friendship with occasional sexual contact, with the teacher and leaves her boorish husband and two children who take her for granted....you get the idea!)
It appears Ms Bacia is the product of the Creative Writing School, and she has seen fit to share her wisdom with the world. I would not recommend any aspiring literary genius, or even half-way decent writer actually take the advice here to heart, but it is worth a look at (borrow it) to gets some tips on what not necessarily to do. Successful writing can't be learned from **a** book in my humble opinion! But reading lots and lots and lots of good writing might help!
Then there is Ms Bacia, who writes in the over-wrought women-finding-themselves with a background of pop-psychology-feminism genre. How successfully is a moot point. Not very elegantly or with much literary success.
Her books tend to the plot development heights of First X happened, then Y, and exploits the 'now I'm going to over-describe with the use of strings of adjectives and adverbs' style of writing.
In one book by Ms Bacia the heroine attends an 8 week creative writing class and unlocks her pent-up talents (and has an affair which turns to friendship with occasional sexual contact, with the teacher and leaves her boorish husband and two children who take her for granted....you get the idea!)
It appears Ms Bacia is the product of the Creative Writing School, and she has seen fit to share her wisdom with the world. I would not recommend any aspiring literary genius, or even half-way decent writer actually take the advice here to heart, but it is worth a look at (borrow it) to gets some tips on what not necessarily to do. Successful writing can't be learned from **a** book in my humble opinion! But reading lots and lots and lots of good writing might help!
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