The print and e-release of my first non-fiction books is fast approaching! I was going to post the covers, but Blogger is just totally whacked today. I'll have to try again when its not so hinky, not to mention ANNOYING.
In the run up to the release of the books, actually booklets would be a more accurate description, I plan on doing a couple of short blogs on subjects from the booklets. Basically both books are my "quick and dirty" techniques on how to write a suspense novel and adapt your novel for film.
Let's look at Adapting Your Novel for Film first. There are a lot of excellent books on how to write screenplays and on adapting work for film. But they are BOOKS. They are meant to be long and authoritative. My booklet just covers the basics of how you dissect your work and then recreate your story as a script. There is some advice on basic screenwriting in there, too. It's not meant to be definitive or even authoritative. It's just my experiences and how I did it. If you want to now more on the subject, then there is a nice, long bibliography, but for the person who just wants to know the nuts and bolts, then this is, IMHO, a good resource.
Made-up Mayhem also cuts away a lot of the chaff. It assumes you know the basics of writing and want to know how to write a suspense based novel. It takes the reader through information that I had to collect by reading a lot of other books. At the back, there is a list of some of the most useful of those books, if you want to know more.
I was thrilled to get two new reviews for The Key. The book will be out for a whole year, so I appreciate both sites doing the reviews anyway. :-)
I guess the message here is: never surrender, never say die. **g**
Perilously yours,
Pauline
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