What's the diference between writing a short story and a novel? -- The idea -- Organising your writing time -- Idea to plot -- Creating great characters -- Viewpoint and tense -- Dialogue -- Showing and telling -- Pace : the beginning -- Pace : the middle -- Pace : the end -- Structure and flashback -- Using a theme -- Editing and revision -- Finding the best title -- The synopsis and the blurb -- Feedback : critique services and writing classes -- Competitions -- Research -- Setting -- Finding an agent or publisher -- Marketing and publicity -- How to deal with rejection -- Tips from the experts.

The follow-up to How To Write and Sell Short Stories, this step-by-step guide will help transform story writers into novelists You are writing and selling short stories but you want to take the next step and write a novel. Della Galton, author of the successful writing guide How To Write and Sell Short Stories, shows you how to make the leap