How to write a book so that it is not published. 200 classic errors

About the book
Many books give sensible tips on how to write well. This is not one of these books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward and ridiculous unreadable passages that will teach you, what should be avoided - at any cost - if you want your novel to be published.

In the book "How to write a book so that it does not publish it: 200 classic mistakes" Authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Numman talk about their 30-year experience of teaching, editing, writing and reviewing fiction to give you real tips with another Parties of the letter of request. Instead of telling how or what to write, they identify the 200 most common mistakes that writers unconsciously make, and teach to recognize, avoid and correct them. With funny "wrong examples", demonstrating every mistake related to the manuscript, they will help to deal with your principles and endings, bad guys, love interests, style, jokes, perspective, voice and many others. This important leadership of "how it is not necessary to help to get your manuscript from slush to a bookstore.

From the authors
All books about writing skill are striving to give understandable and sometimes diametrically opposite tips on how to write a novel. The authors of these books and, under the pain of death, would not have agreed among themselves, or rather, they would have come to an agreement only in one thing - in how no need to write a novel.

Given this circumstance, we finally understood how we can help you. We are not going to dictate to you what and how to write. We simply point out errors typical of unrelated novels, and explain what the editors reading your manuscript do not find time for. We will point out mistakes that they notice immediately, because they constantly see them in novels that do not publish.

We do not impose any rules to you. We only warn. "Turn to the right to red is prohibited" - this is a rule. "High speed drives in the direction of the brick wall usually leads to death - this is a warning.

Hundreds of unrelated - and not suitable for the publication flashed past us, while we were on duty on the side of the road. If you were standing next to us, you would notice the same "accident" that could be avoided. If you were in our place, you would also decide to warn about them.

But do not perceive us as road policemen or driving instructors. We are your navigation system working around the clock. We are a friendly voice directing in the right direction, even when you are lost and scared. We, in the end, are those people who will help you answer the question: "How did I get into all this?"

For whom this book
For writers, scriptwriters, playwrights and everyone who wants to write books that will be published.

For everyone who is tired of standard tips on writing.

About the authors
Howard Mittelmark - writer and editor, his reviews and works were published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Hollywood Reporter, Writer"s Digest and others. The author of the novel "Age of Consent".

Sandra Kontiman is a co-author of the book "How to write a book so that it does not publish it: 200 classic mistakes", the author of the novels "The only good that anyone has ever done", as well as the upcoming memoirs "replacement". She taught writing and literature at the University of Temple, the University of Chepman and at the University of Colorado, and also published art and scientific literature in the newspapers Harper"s, Granta, London Observer, Telegraph and Mail On Sunday and others