Michael Totten

Write, Edit, Publish: What Every Writer Needs to Know but Only an Editor Will Tell You (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Literary agents and publishers reject 99 percent of manuscripts before finishing the first page. Discerning readers are just as ruthless. If your opening doesn't grab them by the throat, they're gone. Award-winning author and veteran editor Michael J. Totten will show youin the first two chapters alonehow to craft a killer first sentence and a gripping first page that refuse to let go.

Most books about writing are written by writers, not editors. They don't see the troubled manuscripts that Totten sees, so the crippling mistakes that sink so many otherwise promising manuscripts aren't well covered in most books about writinguntil now.

He'll show you dozens of ways to brand yourself a pro instead of an amateur, save your plot from disaster, tap into readers' capacity for empathy so they truly sympathize with your characters, craft an ending that haunts even after it's over, spellbind readers using real rather than vacuous descriptions, avoid idiotic character decisions, ditch the lame filter words, and so much more.

With insights forged from three decades in the trenches, Totten will save you years of struggle and show you how to write so well the world can't ignore you.

Praise for Michael J. Totten

"This book is game-changing for writers. Michael J. Totten gives great advice about writing that only a seasoned editor could convey. I'm including this book as required reading in my editing course and plan to have other folks in my department read it as well."

Allyson Longueira, professor in the graduate program in creative writing at Western Colorado University

"I've admired Michael J. Totten's work as a writer for years, but it turns out he is also a superb editor."

Judith Deborah, author of A Falling Knife: An Evan Adair Mystery

"As an accomplished writer, journalist, and editor, Michael is second to none. He has helped me with two books and enormously improved both."

Fred Litwin, author of I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak



"If you're looking for an editor to help you take your book to the next level, look no further than Michael J. Totten. I've always found his astute insights invaluable."

Scott William Carter, author of The Gray and Guilty Sea



"Michael J. Totten brings experience as a prize-winning author to the table, and this enriches his editorial and procedural insights and recommendations."

Erik Bundy, author of Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Belmont Estate Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227205049
• Artikelnr.: 73755586

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Totten is an award-winning journalist and prize-winning author whose very first book, The Road to Fatima Gate, won the Washington Institute Book Prize. His novel, Resurrection, has been optioned for film.

He has taken road trips to war zones, sneaked into police states under false pretenses, dodged incoming rocket and mortar fire, stayed in some of the worst hotels ever built anywhere, slipped past the hostile side of a front line, been accused of being a spy, received death threats from terrorists, and been mugged by the police in Egypt. When he's not doing or writing about these things, he writes novels.

His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic among numerous other publications, and he's a contributing editor at World Affairs and City Journal. He has reported widely from the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, Latin America, and the Balkans. A former resident of Beirut, he lives in Oregon with his wife and two cats.