Writing the Killer Crime Novel - How to Increase Your Odds of Getting Published

Virtual Class
* Tuesday, October 17, 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm

Author of the award-winning and bestselling IQ series, Joe Ide, joins Book Passage for this one-night course.

Topics this class will cover:

• Discuss storytelling: the ingredients that make one story compelling and another fall flat.
• Learn Joe’s methods for creating dynamic characters and dialogue that’s
• sharp, smart and entertaining.
• Introduction to his approach to building action scenes, as well as the basics of rewriting.
• Publishing field: the gatekeepers, who they are and what they expect.
• What publishers are looking for and what they’ll reject out of hand.
• Discussion of money: advances, royalties, movie and TV options.
• He’ll answer practical questions like: I’m about to write a 300-page novel; how do I start? Prologue or no prologue? I’m stuck. What do I do now? How do I write twists and turns? What am I looking for when I’m rewriting? How do I develop my “voice”?