Creating Your First Novel

By: Quense, Hank

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 bookWriting the bookPublishing the bookMarketing the bookAuthor 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 Book covers all five phases. It is written by an author who has gone through the project over two dozen times.

Creating Your First Book provides a road map to get you through the process without losing your sanity.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CJPNFFBH
• ISBN13: 9798985309799
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Strange Worlds Publishing
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Creating Your First Novel

I have read other writing self help books from Hank and Quense and was interested in reading his newest release, Creating Your First Novel: A Comprehensive Guide Spanning the Entire Long-Term Project: From Planning Through Marketing and Starting Your Author Business. The book is broken down into 5 parts: Planning – The beginning phase of writing, such as, characters, setting, plot, etc. Writing - Includes a Fiction Writing Workshop, which has thirteen lessons on how to get started on bringing a novel to life. Author Business – How to get started with the business of becoming an author, such as, royalties, profits, losses, taxes, etc. Publishing – shows ten steps on how to get the novel published from becoming self-published or traditionally published. Marketing – explains different ways of promoting the novel from getting reviews to showing a presence on social media. I found the book to be easy to read and follow along and I appreciated the tips, advice, and tricks. Creating Your First Novel: A Comprehensive Guide Spanning the Entire Long-Term Project: From Planning Through Marketing and Starting Your Author Business will be getting five stars from me. I highly recommend it for readers who are interested in writing their first novel and needing guidance on how to get started. I received a paperback copy of Hank Quense’s Creating Your First Novel: A Comprehensive Guide Spanning the Entire Long-Term Project: From Planning Through Marketing and Starting Your Author Business from the publisher, but was not required to write a positive review. This review is one hundred percent my own honest opinion.