Adult Review – Creating Your First Novel – nonfiction
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Category: Adult Non-Fiction, 120 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction, Self Help,
Publisher: Strange Worlds Publishing
Release date: Oct 15, 2023
Content Rating: G
Are you writing your first book? Or are you thinking about writing it?
Do you have any idea what you’re getting into?
No? Let’s talk about it.
Most aspiring authors concentrate on writing the book to the exclusion of all else. However, the reality is that creating a book is a long-term, multi-phase project and writing it is only one facet of the project.
The complete project involves five separate phases:
- Planning the book
- Writing the book
- Publishing the book
- Marketing the book
- Author business issues
Unfortunately, planning and writing a book does nothing to prepare the author for the other phases of the project. The only commonality between the phases is that they are about a single book.
Another difficulty with the creative project is that almost all information on the process only discusses one phase of it.
Until now.
Creating Your First Novel covers all five phases.
It is written by an author who has gone through the project over two dozen times. Creating Your First Novel provides a road map to get you through the process without losing your sanity.
My Adult Review
Quense, Hank. Creating Your First Novel: A comprehensive guide spanning the entire long-term project: from planning through marketing and starting your author business. 2023.
Hank Quense is an award-winning author so he knows his business when it comes to creating novels. Whether you are a novice or intermediate author, there is something for you in this comprehensive guide.
Quense breaks the process down into 5 phases and provides detailed information about each phase. Beginning authors will want to start at the beginning and work their way step-by-step through the phases, taking to heart the advice Quense provides. More experienced authors may be able to pick and choose the parts of the book that they struggle most with although it would probably be a good refresher to read the book from cover to cover.
The first section of the book could easily be used as a textbook for a writing course at the high school or college level. There are 13 lessons which come with assignments. It could also be used as a self-study course.
As an aspiring author myself, I will be referring to this book again as I work on my own writing.
Creating Your First Novel is written for the adult audience but it could find its way into a K-12 Christian school library. It is appropriate for high schoolers.
I received a complimentary copy of Creating Your First Novel. This is my honest review.
Meet the Author – Hank Quense:
Hank Quense has self-published his books for over 12 years. His non-fiction books cover fiction writing (Creating Stories), self-publishing (How to Self-publish and Market a Book, Self-publish a Book in 10 Steps), marketing (Book Marketing Fundamentals) and author business (Business Basics for Authors).
He also lectures on these subjects in schools, libraries and on webinars.
Hank recently started https://hankquense.podia.com/ The site provides solutions to pain points (problems) for fiction writers, self-publishing authors and authors who are trying to market their books.
Connect with the Author: Website ~ X ~ Facebook ~ Pinterest ~ YouTube ~ BookBub ~ Goodreads
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