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A Novel’s Journey
Virtual Author Visit
with
Kate Messner
www.katemessner.com
Where Do We Start?
IDEAS!
Where do you get ideas for your books?
Imagine yourself there…
Where do you get ideas for your books?
Write what you know…
Jean TalonMarket,
Montreal
Writing a Rough Draft
Revision(not editing)
A Shrunken ManuscriptStrategy Courtesy of Darcy Pattison
http://www.darcypattison.com
PINK = plot pointsGREEN = crushBLUE = RubyORANGE = funny bits
with IanYELLOW = place for
the tree game
Submissions
Process“Please buy my book!”
Rejections“No, thank you.”
Revision(not editing)
Copy Edits(final proofreading)
What will the cover look like?
What will the cover look like?
(Take two!)
Walker/Bloomsbury
December 2010
A Novel’s Journey
Virtual Author Visit
with
Kate Messner
www.katemessner.com