Captivate Your Readers: An Editor's Guide to Writing Compelling Fiction

Are you looking for techniques to bring your fiction to life
for the readers so they feel they're right there, on the edge of their seats,
struggling with the hero or heroine? Staying up late at night, worrying, glued
to the pages?

This guide provides specific advice, with examples, for
captivating readers and immersing them in your story world.

It's all about engaging the reader and providing a direct
connection with the characters through techniques such as deep point of view,
showing instead of telling, avoiding author intrusions, creating dialogue that
zings, adding lots of tension and intrigue, and basically letting the
characters tell the story.

Today's readers want to put aside their cares and chores and
lose themselves in an absorbing story. This book shows you how to provide the
emotional involvement and immediacy readers crave in fiction.

You'll find concrete tips, with examples, for making sure your characters come to life
and your readers feel directly connected to them, without the author's hand
appearing as an intermediary.

And like Jodie Renner's other writing guides, which are all designed
for busy writers, the format of this one is reader-friendly, with text broken
up by subheadings, examples, and lists. Each chapter is designed to stand
alone, so they can be read in any order.

This book is a finalist in two book awards so far, NIEA (National Indie Excellence)
and FAPA (Florida Authors & Publishers) President's Book Awards (winners announced August 8, 2015).