Novel Voices: 17 Award-Winning Novelists on How to Write, Edit, and Get Published. This item is unavailable.Novel Voices: 17 Award-Winning Novelists on How to Write, Edit, and Get Published

In Novel Voices, you'll discover a wealth of practical and motivating insights from 17 of today's most talented authors. Interviews with Ernest J. Gaines, Ha Jin, Melanie Rae Thon, Charles Baxter, William H. Gass and more provide the instruction and inspiration you need to create winning fiction that will garner critical raves and creative success. Learn how to spark ideas for your writing and bring a story to life. Explore various elements of craft, from deciding on the best form for a piece of fiction to creating effective and realistic dialogue. Read advice on how to deepen a story by adjusting pace, tone or point of view. Each author also discusses various aspects of the editing process, whether it's determining when to stop writing and start revising, or how to take and work with criticism. Thoughout, you'll find first-hand tips on the craft of writing and breaking into publishing, all to develop and strengthen your own novel voice. The complete list of authors interviewed includes: Richard Bausch Charles Baxter Carrie Brown Andre Dubus Stuart Dybek Richard Ford Ernest J. Gaines William H. Gass Tim Gautreaux Siri Hustvedt Ha Jin Charles Johnson Valerie Martin Elizabeth McCracken Antonya Nelson Ann Patchett Melanie Rae Thon

"Fiction is about trouble. I make up characters who are decent or who are trying to be decent, and I add trouble. The more the better." "When we met [the authors] in restaurants, hotels, offices or their homes, they all opened themselves to us in surprising ways. In the middle of an Oklahoma thunderstorm, Ha Jin expressed his feelings of camaraderie with the long-dead masters of literature. Richard Bausch and Charles Baxter took us on car tours of their fictional settings. Tim Gautreaux joined us for po-boys at one of his hangouts, a place that seemed to spring from the pages of his fiction. Elizabeth McCracken took us along to pick up her dry cleaning. We drove to the airport with Ann Patchett's dog perched on our laps."