Writing the Blockbuster Novel
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Albert Zuckerman legendary literary agent has worked with many bestselling authors including Ken Follett Olivia Goldsmith Antoinette Van Heugten Michael Lewis and F. Paul Wilson. Zuckerman is a master at teaching writers the skills necessary to crack the bestseller list. For this revised edition of Writing the Blockbuster Novel Zuckerman has added an analysis of Nora Roberts s The Witness which he uses along with classic books like Gone With the Wind and The Godfather to illustrate his points. Zuckerman s commentary on Ken Follett s working outlines for The Man From St. Petersburg provide a blueprint for building links between plot and character. A new introduction discusses social media and self-publishing. Writing the Blockbuster Novel is an essential tool for any aspiring author. As Dan Brown said in an interview: Not long ago I had an amusing experience meeting the author of a book I received as a gift nearly two decades ago a book that in many ways changed my life. I was halfway through writing my first novel when I was given a copy of Writing the Blockbuster Novel. [Zuckerman s] book helped me complete my manuscript and get it published. [When] I met Mr. Zuckerman for the first time. I gratefully told him that he had helped me. He jokingly replied that he planned to tell everyone that he had helped me write The Da Vinci Code.