TAKE YOUR NOVEL TO THE NEXT LEVEL

In Take Your Novel to the Next Level by Marjorie Reynolds, you’ll learn how to breathe life into characters and color a scene with sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. It will guide you through setting, characters, plot, scenes, conflict, emotion, suspense, tension, climax and resolution, while taking you up the ladder to advanced skills such as subtext and the echo technique. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to put your reader into the scene, not just as an observer but as a witness to the dramatic action.

Drawing upon thirty years as a journalist and novelist, this award-winning author offers powerful techniques writers may not have encountered in other how-to manuals and expands upon some that need more emphasis.

William Morrow & Co. published her novels, The Starlite Drive-in and The Civil Wars of Jonah Moran in hardcover, and Berkley released them in paperback. 

From The New York Times Book Review, “Marjorie Reynolds tidily explores the gap between fantasy and reality” in The Starlite Drive-in.  Publishers Weekly wrote, “Reynolds once again proves herself a sure-handed storyteller” in The Civil Wars of Jonah Moran.  The American Library Association chose The Starlite Drive-in as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year for Young Adults. It also received a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" award, and it was optioned for film. It was a Literary Guild alternate selection and a Reader's Digest Select Editions book. Rights were sold to seven countries.