Why Will No One Publish My Novel

Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art of writing. 0Why Will No-One Publish My Novel? will delight ...

Author: Fay Weldon

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ISBN: 1788544617

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As the author of over 30 novels, stories and screenplays, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art of writing. In the course of 30 accessible essays, Weldon attempts to answer the title's question--why will no one publish your novel?--and steers the reader on the way to becoming a writer. Full of her trademark wit, this book will delight and amuse at the same time as offering up useful tips for all those who yearn to write.
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Why Will No One Publish My Novel

About Why Will No-One Publish My Novel? You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it.

Author: Fay Weldon

Publisher: Head of Zeus Ltd

ISBN: 9781788544603

Category: Self-Help

Page: 192

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You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it. What do you do next? Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art of writing. Why Will No-One Publish My Novel? will delight and amuse, but it isn't just another how-to-write handbook: it shows you how not to write if you want to get published. 'Weaves literary lore with Weldon's considerable experience as a successful writer' Evening Standard. 'Contains lots of interesting advice' Daily Mail. 'Tips and emotional support for the would-be novelist' Sunday Times. What readers are saying about the book: 'More fun than the other writing manuals. And much less bossy ... I loved it' 'Reading this book is like having a private tutorial with Fay Weldon' 'Weldon's writing style is so easy to read and her advice is very doable' 'Hilariously funny, helpful and written by a veteran. Get it'
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Mentor A Memoir

With Eric no longer working for the agency, I felt more like a burden than a ... No, my novel had to be published for one specific reason—so I could escape ...

Author: Tom Grimes

Publisher: Tin House Books

ISBN: 9780982569108

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 200

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An intimate look at the writing life, the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, the fickle publishing world, and an extraordinary friendship with Frank Conroy. A chance encounter between two writers, one young, one older, develops into a wonderful friendship neither expected. Frank Conroy, author of the classic memoir Stop-Time, meets Tom Grimes, an aspiring writer and an applicant to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which Conroy directs. First as teacher and student--and gradually as friends—their lives become entwined, and through both successes and disappointments, their bond deepens. Exquisitely written, Mentor is an honest and heartbreaking exploration of the writing life and the role of a very important teacher.
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How to Write and Self Publish Your First Novel

It is concise and to the point and it is written from experience; thousands of hours of experience. Every essay in this book is relevant and has a purpose. Every essay will give you pause for thought.

Author: Paul Dorset

Publisher: CreateSpace

ISBN: 1466294345

Category: Reference

Page: 126

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Writing and publishing your first novel is tough. It usually takes a long time. Years for most people. It can be soul destroying too. You finally complete your manuscript; you send off samples to agents and publishers, and anxiously watch the mail for the responses. Then they come in, one at a time, rejection after rejection. How do I know this? I've been there. Does this mean I was a bad writer? No, but I could have used some help in those early days. Sure, I had purchased a few books on writing and I had tried to pay attention to the advice they gave, but there were so many of them and sometimes advice seemed to conflict other advice. It was way too much to take in. But I persevered with my writing and now I have been writing for several years and I have completed several novels and other books, and my writing is a lot better. My early novels could still do with some major re-editing (which they will be finally getting this summer), but my later works, oh wow I can spot the differences! So, a few months ago I decided I would go the self-publishing route to getting my books out there in the big world. Things are changing in the book markets and so many people now have Kindles and Nooks and iPads and other electronic book readers. I thought to myself, why not do it myself? I know I can write; I have that confidence. Enough complete strangers have told me they like what I write, so why shouldn't I join that list of published authors? And why should I have to wait for some agent or publisher to take a chance on an unknown author before I get published? So I did it, and now I have the story to tell and the method you can use to generate your own success. This ebook is a series of essays solely concerned with improving your writing skills and getting your first novel successfully self-published. It is written in a way that you can keep dipping into it, and keep coming back to parts of it, time and time again. It is concise and to the point and it is written from experience; thousands of hours of experience. Every essay in this book is relevant and has a purpose. Every essay will give you pause for thought. Can I turn you into a bestselling author? No - only you can do that. But I can set you on a path to success. I can give you clear guidelines about what not to do, and how to do things better. And I can tell you exactly how to self-publish that novel. This ebook takes your novel from the beginning and leads you along a path of self-discovery. When you have finished reading you will be Writing for Success and be someone who has a better chance than most every other wannabe author out there of becoming the next Tom Clancy, JK Rowling, Stephen King, or whoever else is your writing hero. Good luck! ESSAYS: 1. Don't Start the Story at the Beginning 2. Become a Successful Writer in 2,000 Hours 3. Poems and Short Stories 4. Creating a Good Plot 5. How Long Should a First Novel Be? 6. Writing in the First Person 7. Writing in the Third Person 8. Dialog Versus Narrative - Show Versus Tell 9. Writing Your First Novel: Words & Routine 10. Conflict and Its Importance 11. Plot Pace 12. Creating Believable and Well Rounded Characters 13. Writing Dialog - Or 'He Said, She Said' 14. Creating a Page Turner 15. Letting the Book 'Cook' 16. Self-Editing Your Novel 17. The Process of Pre-Reads 18. Creating a World of Fantasy 19. How to Write & Self-Publish a Novel: The End-To-End Process Checklist 20. Creating a Writing Environment without Interruptions 21. Reading to Write 22. Encouraging All Would Be Authors 23. The Self-Publishing Process: The Complete A-Z Instructions 24. Marketing Your Novel - The Relevance of Social Media, ARCs and Book Bloggers
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Extending the Duration of Copyright Protection in Certain Cases

After the book has been published in hard cover form , it is then serialized ... “ I would like so - and - so to publish my novel but no one else ; I would ...

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary

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ISBN: MINN:31951P011500672

Category: Copyright

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Committee Serial No. 27. Considers H.J. Res. 627, to provide an interim five-year extension for all copyrights due to expire, pending general revision of the Copyright Act.
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Hearings

After the book has been published in hard cover form , it is then serialized ... “ I would like so - and - so to publish my novel but no one else ; I would ...

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary

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ISBN: UOM:39015022470069

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THE BEGINNING OF MY END

Without marketing, no one will even touch your Novel. How would anyone know that a new writer has published a Novel?” he continued. “Yes Sir, you are right.

Author: RAHUL SHARMA

Publisher: Notion Press

ISBN: 9781645872610

Category: Fiction

Page: 192

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Aarav is an orphan and lives in Delhi. He is passionate about writing and dreams of becoming a bestselling author one day. One day, he meets Rihana and they fall madly in love. Now, Aarav’s dream becomes Rihana’s dream. But despite their best efforts, no publisher agrees to publish his novel. Finally, Mr. Bajaj of Bajaj Publications sets a condition that the day Aarav became famous, he will print his novel. To realize Rihana’s dream and become a bestselling author, Aarav crosses all limits of craziness.
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The City of Earthly Desire

A Novel Francis Berger ... “Do you think it has a chance at being published? ... The reason no one will publish my book is because it is great?

Author: Francis Berger

Publisher: Francis Berger - Createspace

ISBN: 9781478387886

Category: Fiction

Page: 550

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The City of Earthly Desire is an unforgettable novel of love and lust; beauty and vulgarity; virtue and vice; and art and ethics. Occasionally dark, but always entertaining and engaging, the narrative is peopled by a memorable cast of characters who are as intense and turbulent as the times and places they occupy. Like the great novels of the nineteenth century, the story delves into the struggle between morality and immorality; meaning and nihilism; and good and evil. After the communists destroy his dream of becoming a recognized painter in Hungary, Reinhardt Drixler escapes to America to provide a better future for his young family and to further his artistic pursuits. Twenty-five years later, communism collapses in Europe; Reinhardt’s son Béla falls in love with Suzy Kiss, an ambitious and alluring Hungarian striptease dancer whose interest in the young writer can be summarized in two words: green card. When Suzy is mysteriously deported, a devastated Béla must make a decision – should he stay in New York and continue with the noble artistic ambitions his father instilled in him, or should he follow his heart to Hungary and explore the enticing and risqué opportunities blossoming in post-communist Budapest?
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Other Americas

Dick'sThe Divine Invasion—but noone tomyknowledge has ever published anovel in ... My novel Bug JackBarron, which deals withAmerican presidential politics, ...

Author: Norman Spinrad

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9780575117365

Category: Fiction

Page: 320

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Spinrad examines one of his most compelling obsessions - the possible "futures" of America. Street Meat: In New York City, streeties, zonies and subway cannibals are locked in a nighmarish scrabble for rat meat, sex - and survival. The Lost Continent: group of African tourists visit the ruins of Space Age America - a surreal landscape of abandoned skyscrapers, empty streets and dead, rusted machinery. World War Last: The hashish-smoking Sheik of Koram has a plan to trick America and Russia into war. La Vie Continue: In Paris exiled science-fiction author Norman Spinrad ignores a lucrative - but dangerous - bidding war between the KGB and the CIA for the film rights to his story "Riding the Torch".
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How to Write a Book Or Novel

The hard work and perseverance needed to become successful becomes fun - the best way to learn anything. "How to Write a Book or Novel" is the perfect guide to have close by when you pick up the pen. - Laura

Author: Jonathan Veale

Publisher: CreateSpace

ISBN: 1515074323

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Page: 86

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Write And Publish Your Book In 2015 What does it takes to write and then have published that book you've been mulling over for ages? In this authoritative, 2015 edition of the guide, writer and editor, Jonathan Veale pulls no punches as he outlines the steps to take - and the things to avoid - as you plan, write and see your draft completed and published for all to read, in printed form, and or as an ebook. Although already a published author in non-fiction, when I decided to try my hand at fiction I realised some professional help would be useful. Well, this book is more than useful - it is essential and within five minutes I had discovered some invaluable tips. Jonathan holds your interest from start to finish but more importantly, he INSPIRES you! I feel certain this book has definitely increased my chances of getting published as a fiction writer by 100% - and it encouraged self- belief as well! It's a real steal . . . - Terence Watts Whether you have a thriller in your head, an autobiography, or a guide on how to give dreadful restaurants a miss, the advice here will help you see your book through from idea to bookshop. The disreputable activities of rogue publishers and shady agents are explored so that you can identify them and avoid them altogether. If you have doubts about self-help books, here's one that's different. Jonathan Veale highlights, with unerring accuracy, the multiple problems bedeviling aspiring writers and preventing them getting their work into print. He deals with every aspect of creative writing, from the first vague idea right up to actual publication. Anyone feeling blocked or discouraged should benefit from his friendly, practical and upbeat advice, crammed with helpful tips. - Liz B Ebooks and New Writers - A route well worth consideringEbooks, together with the latest print-on-demand options, allow writers with their wits about them to publish books, printed and or digital, at low cost, and sell them worldwide using Amazon and similar online platforms. A chapter describes this exciting new route for aspiring writers. It is now a marketplace that no new writer should disregard. Sales of digital books are expected to take an even greater majority share in 2015 over their printed cousins. This valuable guide offers publishing and editing suggestions to help you:* get going - many people talk a good book. This shows you how to complete and publish one* have a clear understanding of your potential market* set a budget for editorial and technical support* self-edit professionally so that your prose style shines through* prepare your book so that publishers sit up and take note when you submit your work* spot vanity publishing bandits and unscrupulous agents - the people who empty your pockets* find technical support, at trade prices, if you wish to self-publishAt last a book about writing that's funny, informative and makes you realise all is possible in the writing game. Jonathan, a professional editor and writer, guides you through from the initial idea to publication: how to prepare the manuscript, synopsis and how to save money while going about it. It's as if he's sitting alongside with a glass of wine, sharing the experience. The hard work and perseverance needed to become successful becomes fun - the best way to learn anything. "How to Write a Book or Novel" is the perfect guide to have close by when you pick up the pen. - Laura
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No One You Know

She's the subject of my novel. ... I don't even know if I can publish it. Maybe no one wants a novel from a writer of true crime books, especially a love ...

Author: Michelle Richmond

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 9781407028026

Category: Fiction

Page: 336

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THE COMPELLING MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MARRIAGE PACT Her sister was murdered. The killer was never found. Until now... All her childhood Ellie Enderlin had lived in her sister’s shadow. But then Lily was murdered and their family changed forever. Now, decades later, Ellie comes into possession of Lila’s lost notebook and has a chance to finally discover the truth about her sister’s death. But her search for justice will lead her to uncover her sister’s darkest secrets... From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE MARRIAGE PACT, a Richard and Judy Book Club Selection.
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The French

... have one, because I can describe a condition that no one else has.' America provided him with his nearest model, but 'I decided not to publish my novel ...

Author: Theodore Zeldin

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 9781448162000

Category: Psychology

Page: 560

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This is a guide to France intended for the traveller who wants to get to know French people as individuals, for the negotiating businessman and for students who wishes to discover in-depth aspects of their lives. It looks at what makes up the national character of France.
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Yellow Lights of Death

I decided to find Melvin's village without anyone's help. ... As people do when they visit a city they had once lived in, I looked up my old friends.

Author: Benyamin

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 9789352140060

Category: Fiction

Page: 394

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‘One of the best young writers of India’—Indian Express ‘One of the finest contemporary Malayalam writers’—Mint In a café by the seaside, two friends, Christy Andrapper and Jesintha, witness the murder of a young man. When Christy discovers that it was Senthil, his classmate from school, who had been shot, he tries to follow up on the investigation. But the police deny such a crime ever took place. The hospital to which Senthil’s body was delivered insists he died of a heart attack. Christy begins to suspect a conspiracy. Was he caught in the middle of a giant cover-up? How was his powerful family connected with it? As the mystery deepens, the story moves back and forth between the archipelago of Diego Garcia and peninsular India, delving into the very heart of early Christianity in India. After the success and acclaim of Goat Days, Benyamin crafts a clever and absorbing crime-novel-within-a-novel that is dazzlingly inventive and hugely enjoyable.
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Copyfight

Upon completion I discovered my novel was classified by publishers as chicklit. ... write chicklit in twentyfirstcentury Australia no one will publish you.

Author: Phillipa McGuinness

Publisher: NewSouth

ISBN: 9781742242040

Category: Law

Page: 304

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Writers, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, lawyers and academics talk about why copyright matters to them – or doesn’t. We expect to be able to log on and read, watch or listen to anything, anywhere, anytime. Then copy it, share it, quote it, sample it, remix it. Does this leave writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, photographers, artists, and software and game developers with any rights at all? Have we forgotten how to pay for content? Are big corporations and copyright lawyers the only ones making money? Or are we looking in the wrong direction as illegal downloading becomes the biggest industry of all and copyright violation a way of life? In this provocative book John Birmingham, Linda Jaivin, Marc Fennell, Clem Bastow, Lindy Morrison, Imogen Banks, Dan Hunter, Angela Bowne and others fire up the copyright debate like never before.
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This is what happens

... even a Michelle Landsberg, so no one will publish my short little bits. And no one publishes short story collections. So write a novel. Another novel.

Author: chris wind

Publisher: XinXii

ISBN: 9781926891767

Category: Fiction

Page: 407

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How is it that the girl who got the top marks in high school ends up, at fifty, scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets for minimum wage, living in a room above Vera’s Hairstyling, in a god-forsaken town called Powassan? Feminist theorist Dale Spender wrote, in Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them, “We need to know how patriarchy works. We need to know how women disappear....” Indeed we do. Where are all the straight-A girls from high school? Why, how, have they ‘disappeared’? Marriage and kids is an inadequate answer because married-with-kids straight-A boys (of which, let’s acknowledge, there are fewer) are visible. Everywhere. Even the straight-B boys are out there. So what happens? This is what happens responds to Spender's urgent comment.
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In One Person

A Novel John Irving ... One day, creative writing will be taught everywhere! ... (I would publish my novels under the name William Abbott, but I let no one ...

Author: John Irving

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9781451664126

Category: Fiction

Page: 425

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A tale inspired by the U.S. AIDS epidemic in the 1980s follows the experiences of individuals torn by devastating losses and political upheavals whose perspectives on tolerance and love are also irrevocably shaped by awareness of what might have been.
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When I Was Five I Killed Myself

It was heartbreaking. It was The Mortal Storm, a Jimmy Stewart movie I'd seen the night before on television. (A scandal! No one would publish my novel!

Author: Howard Buten

Publisher: ABRAMS

ISBN: 9781468309959

Category: Fiction

Page: 192

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“[A] graceful and brilliant novel . . . leads the reader on a journey through childhood autism that proves enlightening as well as fascinating.” —ForeWord Magazine Burton Rembrandt has the sort of perspective on life that is almost impossible for adults to understand: the perspective of an eight-year-old. And to Burt, his parents and teachers seem to be speaking a language he cannot understand. This is Burt’s story as written in pencil on the walls of the Quiet Room in the Children’s Trust Residence Center, where he lands after expressing his ardent feelings for a classmate. It begins: When I was five I killed myself . . . In this rediscovered modern classic from “one of France’s best-loved contemporary writers,” Howard Buten renders with astounding insight and wry language the tale of a troubled—or perhaps just perfectly normal—young boy testing the boundaries of love and life (Time). “Buten uses his wit like a whip to get at the heart of this boy’s own story . . . bringing some shock and some power to that delicate line between youth and the rest of the world.” —The Austin Chronicle “This psychologically intense tale moves quickly, and the difficult task of creating a child’s voice with authenticity and depth proves Buten a gifted stylist and storyteller . . . [an] imaginative and provocative book.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Certainly Buten offers some insight into a troubled child’s mind.” —The New York Times Book Review
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The Amazing Adventures of John Smith Jr AKA Houdini

My father says one curse word over and over, but Mr. Peterson said if I use it, no one will publish my book. He said kids' books with swear words “won't ...

Author: Peter Johnson

Publisher: Harper Collins

ISBN: 9780062099129

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 192

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For fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee, Gary D. Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, and Jack Gantos's Joey Pigza Books comes a hilarious and poignant slice-of-life novel from critically acclaimed author and poet Peter Johnson. When an author comes to speak to his class in a rundown area of Providence, Houdini decides to make money by writing his own novel. Houdini chronicles his life as he and his friends start a leaf-raking business, befriend Old Man Jackson (a Vietnam War veteran with a seriously intimidating dog), and get even with the neighborhood bully, Angel. But it's hard to find a way to write about his dad losing his job or his brother, Franklin, who is first reported missing in action in Iraq and then still seems to be missing when he comes home. No matter what, Houdini and his friends rely on one another to figure out how to do the right thing. And Houdini discovers that writing and thinking about his friends and family lets him get to know them in completely new ways.
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Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany

They remind one of butterfly collectors: they know a lot about the object of their ... national security policy, no one was willing to publish my novel.

Author: Sander L. Gilman

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN: 9780814730652

Category: History

Page: 290

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How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen Wheeler challenges the reader to experiment with a more imaginative method of literary criticism in order to comprehend more fully writers of the Modernist and late Realist period. In examining the creative works of seven women writers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Wheeler never lets the mystery and magic of literature be overcome by dry critical analysis. Modernist Women Writers and Narrative Art begins by evaluating how Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather all engaged in an ironic critique of realism. They explored the inadequacies of this form in expressing human experience and revealed its hidden, often contradictory, assumptions. Building on the foundation that Wharton, Chopin, and Cather established, Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Stevie Smith, and Jane Bowles brought literature into the era we now consider modernism. Drawing on insights from feminist theory, deconstructionism and revisions of new historicism, Kathleen Wheeler reveals a literary tradition rich in narrative strategy and stylistic sophistication.
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Mozart and Leadbelly

After publishing Catherine Carmier, my first novel, I tried publishing my ... “We know that,” they said, “but no one knows your name now and we need a novel ...

Author: Ernest J. Gaines

Publisher: Vintage

ISBN: 9780307426956

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 192

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The beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer in this collection of stories and essays. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. Gaines faithfully evoke the sorrows and joys of rustic Southern life. From his depiction of his childhood move to California — a move that propelled him to find books that conjured the sights, smells, and locution of his native Louisiana home — to his description of the real-life murder case that gave him the idea for his masterpiece; this wonderful collection is a revelation of both man and writer.
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