Author: Fiona McIntosh
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760140570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
To write is a verb. That's an action word. No more procrastination. Almost everybody thinks they have a book in them or dreams of seeing their name on a front cover, but not everyone knows how to go about it. Sharing all she's learned so far, Fiona McIntosh, one of Australia's most successful commercial authors, shows you how to get started and, even more importantly, how to finish. In this practical and lively handbook McIntosh guides you through the stages of writing a novel, from establishing good working habits all the way through to submitting your draft to a suitable publisher. Chock-full of insider's advice on what makes a bestselling general fiction author, this invaluable resource will equip the newcomer to novel writing with the tools to finish your first draft within a year. If you have a tough hide and a philosophical attitude – as well as a damn strong work ethic – you can make writing fiction your career. 'This rare good book on how to set about writing a popular novel is compulsory reading. Fiona McIntosh is top of the pops.' Bryce Courtenay, at his final Masterclass '[McIntosh's] claims are bold but never overoptimistic.' The Saturday Age 'McIntosh's examples and the exercises she sets in this interesting insight into gaining a foothold in commercial fiction are an eye-opener. And she is more than qualified to take on the role of mentor.' Gold Coast Bulletin
How to Write Your Blockbuster
Author: Fiona McIntosh
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760140570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
To write is a verb. That's an action word. No more procrastination. Almost everybody thinks they have a book in them or dreams of seeing their name on a front cover, but not everyone knows how to go about it. Sharing all she's learned so far, Fiona McIntosh, one of Australia's most successful commercial authors, shows you how to get started and, even more importantly, how to finish. In this practical and lively handbook McIntosh guides you through the stages of writing a novel, from establishing good working habits all the way through to submitting your draft to a suitable publisher. Chock-full of insider's advice on what makes a bestselling general fiction author, this invaluable resource will equip the newcomer to novel writing with the tools to finish your first draft within a year. If you have a tough hide and a philosophical attitude – as well as a damn strong work ethic – you can make writing fiction your career. 'This rare good book on how to set about writing a popular novel is compulsory reading. Fiona McIntosh is top of the pops.' Bryce Courtenay, at his final Masterclass '[McIntosh's] claims are bold but never overoptimistic.' The Saturday Age 'McIntosh's examples and the exercises she sets in this interesting insight into gaining a foothold in commercial fiction are an eye-opener. And she is more than qualified to take on the role of mentor.' Gold Coast Bulletin
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760140570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
To write is a verb. That's an action word. No more procrastination. Almost everybody thinks they have a book in them or dreams of seeing their name on a front cover, but not everyone knows how to go about it. Sharing all she's learned so far, Fiona McIntosh, one of Australia's most successful commercial authors, shows you how to get started and, even more importantly, how to finish. In this practical and lively handbook McIntosh guides you through the stages of writing a novel, from establishing good working habits all the way through to submitting your draft to a suitable publisher. Chock-full of insider's advice on what makes a bestselling general fiction author, this invaluable resource will equip the newcomer to novel writing with the tools to finish your first draft within a year. If you have a tough hide and a philosophical attitude – as well as a damn strong work ethic – you can make writing fiction your career. 'This rare good book on how to set about writing a popular novel is compulsory reading. Fiona McIntosh is top of the pops.' Bryce Courtenay, at his final Masterclass '[McIntosh's] claims are bold but never overoptimistic.' The Saturday Age 'McIntosh's examples and the exercises she sets in this interesting insight into gaining a foothold in commercial fiction are an eye-opener. And she is more than qualified to take on the role of mentor.' Gold Coast Bulletin
The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
Author: Adam Cece
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925603482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing Kipp Kindle and his friends Tobias Treachery and Cymphany Chan live in Huggabie Falls, the weirdest town on Earth. Weird things happen all the time—that’s normal. But when an extremely weird thing happens Kipp and his friends know that something is wrong. They embark on a fast-paced, action-packed, hilarious adventure to find out what is making everything turn normal, and to return the weirdness to Huggabie Falls. With an evil villain, Felonious Dark, a creepy scientist and a fierce wand-wielding teacher, who has turned Cymphany into a baby hippopotamus, to contend with, not to mention killer vampire bats, vegetarian piranhas and a Portuguese-speaking lab rat called Ralf, Kipp, Tobias and Cymphany have quite a task ahead of them. This is the first book in the Huggabie Falls trilogy, the funniest, craziest, weirdest series ever written, so far. Look out for Book 2: The Unbelievably Scary Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls in October 2018.
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925603482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing Kipp Kindle and his friends Tobias Treachery and Cymphany Chan live in Huggabie Falls, the weirdest town on Earth. Weird things happen all the time—that’s normal. But when an extremely weird thing happens Kipp and his friends know that something is wrong. They embark on a fast-paced, action-packed, hilarious adventure to find out what is making everything turn normal, and to return the weirdness to Huggabie Falls. With an evil villain, Felonious Dark, a creepy scientist and a fierce wand-wielding teacher, who has turned Cymphany into a baby hippopotamus, to contend with, not to mention killer vampire bats, vegetarian piranhas and a Portuguese-speaking lab rat called Ralf, Kipp, Tobias and Cymphany have quite a task ahead of them. This is the first book in the Huggabie Falls trilogy, the funniest, craziest, weirdest series ever written, so far. Look out for Book 2: The Unbelievably Scary Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls in October 2018.
Wesley Booth Super Sleuth
Author: Adam Cece
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781742991016
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Hub Hill Primary School is in the grip of a crime wave. Wesley Booth is a Super Sleuth, which is like a detective only awesomer, and this is his biggest (and first) real case. It's not easy when he has to deal with an arch enemy (new-girl-at-school Cassidy Strong), traitorous friends and incompetent assistants, prison warden parents, a delusional big brother, a client who wants to snap him in half like a stick, and over eighty-one million suspects. But he has to work out who the Heister is before his detective equipment gets confiscated and he is grounded forever.
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781742991016
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Hub Hill Primary School is in the grip of a crime wave. Wesley Booth is a Super Sleuth, which is like a detective only awesomer, and this is his biggest (and first) real case. It's not easy when he has to deal with an arch enemy (new-girl-at-school Cassidy Strong), traitorous friends and incompetent assistants, prison warden parents, a delusional big brother, a client who wants to snap him in half like a stick, and over eighty-one million suspects. But he has to work out who the Heister is before his detective equipment gets confiscated and he is grounded forever.
Twin Spin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781742991856
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When identical twins, Anna and Steph, are forced to swap places for a week, what could possibly go wrong - apart from everything?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781742991856
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When identical twins, Anna and Steph, are forced to swap places for a week, what could possibly go wrong - apart from everything?
My Dad Thinks He's Funny
Author: Katrina Germein
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763665223
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
A gift-appropriate story for kids features a long-suffering boy's eye-rolling observations of his father's bombastic and often corny sense of humor, which is comprised of groan-out-loud puns and wisecracking rejoinders.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763665223
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
A gift-appropriate story for kids features a long-suffering boy's eye-rolling observations of his father's bombastic and often corny sense of humor, which is comprised of groan-out-loud puns and wisecracking rejoinders.
Scary Bird
Author: Michel Streich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781443190589
Category : Belonging (Social psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A light-hearted tale that shows different doesn't have to be scary! There's a new bird in the aviary . . . and everyone's in a flap! He's strange and different . . . and SCARY! Will the scary bird ever feel at home with the others? A fresh take on appreciating our differences and learning to embrace newcomers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781443190589
Category : Belonging (Social psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A light-hearted tale that shows different doesn't have to be scary! There's a new bird in the aviary . . . and everyone's in a flap! He's strange and different . . . and SCARY! Will the scary bird ever feel at home with the others? A fresh take on appreciating our differences and learning to embrace newcomers.
The Unbelievably Scary Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
Author: Adam Cece
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925773019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Kipp Kindle, Tobias Treachery and Cymphany Chan live in Huggabie Falls, the weirdest town on Earth, so weirdness is pretty normal for them. But when unbelievably scary things start to happen, even Kipp, Tobias and Cymphany have trouble believing what’s going on. Why is everyone running away from their worst fears and where did those fears suddenly appear from? How can a dinosaur that doesn’t even exist be about to chomp Cymphany in two? And is the evil Felonious Dark reformed like he says he is, or is he the one behind the unbelievably scary happenings? With all the madcap humour and breakneck adventure of The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls, this hilarious sequel will have young readers laughing out loud and asking for more.
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925773019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Kipp Kindle, Tobias Treachery and Cymphany Chan live in Huggabie Falls, the weirdest town on Earth, so weirdness is pretty normal for them. But when unbelievably scary things start to happen, even Kipp, Tobias and Cymphany have trouble believing what’s going on. Why is everyone running away from their worst fears and where did those fears suddenly appear from? How can a dinosaur that doesn’t even exist be about to chomp Cymphany in two? And is the evil Felonious Dark reformed like he says he is, or is he the one behind the unbelievably scary happenings? With all the madcap humour and breakneck adventure of The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls, this hilarious sequel will have young readers laughing out loud and asking for more.
The Utterly Indescribable Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
Author: Adam Cece
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925774260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The sensational conclusion to the hugely entertaining Huggabie Falls trilogy from the 2017 Text Prize winner, Adam Cece
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925774260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The sensational conclusion to the hugely entertaining Huggabie Falls trilogy from the 2017 Text Prize winner, Adam Cece
The Cipher
Author: Dave Bertagno
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300107863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
How are the events in a person's life valued? If you rise up to challenges and conquer problems by staring them straight in the eye and picking the right choice in split second decisions does this make you any better than the person who made the wrong choice? Or didn't act at all? What if you think you've learned from your past mistakes and did everything you could to make things different the second time around only to fail yet again? In this coming of age tale, Shane Lyons battles with loss, the failures of a guilty conscience, and the inner struggles of a grief stricken mind all the while attempting to dismantle a mob that has strong-armed a city into fear and denial. It is a story that makes each of us question just how far we would go to achieve our own identity and self-acknowledgement in order to find some peace of mind. We all fail at some point. It is how we handle that loss and face tomorrow that determines our true worth.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300107863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
How are the events in a person's life valued? If you rise up to challenges and conquer problems by staring them straight in the eye and picking the right choice in split second decisions does this make you any better than the person who made the wrong choice? Or didn't act at all? What if you think you've learned from your past mistakes and did everything you could to make things different the second time around only to fail yet again? In this coming of age tale, Shane Lyons battles with loss, the failures of a guilty conscience, and the inner struggles of a grief stricken mind all the while attempting to dismantle a mob that has strong-armed a city into fear and denial. It is a story that makes each of us question just how far we would go to achieve our own identity and self-acknowledgement in order to find some peace of mind. We all fail at some point. It is how we handle that loss and face tomorrow that determines our true worth.
Crepe Factor
Author: Laura Childs
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101617578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn’t taking a holiday in this festive mystery in the New York Times bestselling Scrapbooking series. The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand—but not so hectic that she doesn’t have time to enjoy browsing the booths at the Winter Market with her best friend, Ava. The last thing the ladies expect to see is a lurching man stabbed by a serving fork, dying in front of them. The victim is loathed restaurant critic Martin Lash, who posted his scathing reviews on the Glutton for Punishment website. And the prime suspect is New Orleans restaurateur Quigg Brevard—who was seen giving the critic a tongue-lashing minutes before someone stuck a fork in him. An old flame of Carmela’s, Quigg asks for her help, which does not please her current beau, Detective Edgar Babcock, to say the least. Before her relationship is the next victim, Carmela needs to find a murderer who had no reservations about punishing the culinary curmudgeon… “The plot is detailed with layers of mysteries...The rich descriptions and dialog bring this story to life.”—Open Book Society SCRAPBOOKING TIPS INCLUDED!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101617578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn’t taking a holiday in this festive mystery in the New York Times bestselling Scrapbooking series. The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand—but not so hectic that she doesn’t have time to enjoy browsing the booths at the Winter Market with her best friend, Ava. The last thing the ladies expect to see is a lurching man stabbed by a serving fork, dying in front of them. The victim is loathed restaurant critic Martin Lash, who posted his scathing reviews on the Glutton for Punishment website. And the prime suspect is New Orleans restaurateur Quigg Brevard—who was seen giving the critic a tongue-lashing minutes before someone stuck a fork in him. An old flame of Carmela’s, Quigg asks for her help, which does not please her current beau, Detective Edgar Babcock, to say the least. Before her relationship is the next victim, Carmela needs to find a murderer who had no reservations about punishing the culinary curmudgeon… “The plot is detailed with layers of mysteries...The rich descriptions and dialog bring this story to life.”—Open Book Society SCRAPBOOKING TIPS INCLUDED!