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    Write Naked: A Bestseller's Secrets to Writing Romance & Navigating the Path to Success
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    Write Naked: A Bestseller's Secrets to Writing Romance & Navigating the Path to Success

    By Jennifer Probst

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    Learn how to transform your passion for writing into a career. New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Probst reveals her pathway to success, from struggling as a new writer to signing a seven-figure deal. Write Naked intermingles personal essays on craft with down-to-earth advice on writing romance in the digital age. Probst will teach you how to:
    • Commit to your current work-in-progress, get focused, and complete it on schedule
    • Reveal raw emotions and thoughts on the page to hook your readers
    • Assemble a street team to promote and celebrate your books
    • Overcome writer's block with ease
    • Develop themes that tie together your books and series
    • Write the most difficult elements of romance--including sex scenes--with skill and style
    Regardless of the genre, every novelist faces a difficult task. Creating authentic characters and an engaging plot are challenging enough. But attempting to break into the hotter-than-ever romance genre, which is constantly flooded with new titles and fresh faces? It can feel impossible. This is where Probst's Write Naked comes in. To survive--and thrive--you need the help and wisdom of an expert.

    Written in Probst's unmistakable and honest voice, Write Naked is filled with the lessons and craft advice every writer needs in order to carve out a rewarding career.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriter's Digest Books
    Release dateMar 31, 2017
    ISBN9781440347467
    Author

    Jennifer Probst

    Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t stopped writing since. She took a short hiatus to get married, get pregnant, buy a house, get pregnant again, pursue a Master’s degree in English literature, and rescue two shelter dogs. Now she is writing again. She is the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. She was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Her work has been translated in over a dozen countries, sold over a million copies, and was dubbed a “romance phenom” by Kirkus Reviews. She makes her home in upstate New York with the whole crew. Her sons keep her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will never be truly clean.

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    • 5/5
      This is a great book on writing romance. I found it used great examples and was a motivating read.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful book about the experience of being an author in addition to technical advice.