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    A Guide for the New Novelist

    By Laurent Boulanger

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    In this small, but comprehensive, volume, Dr Laurent Boulanger shares his wisdom of years of combined creative writing knowledge for the new novelist. He goes through the various aspects of setting yourself up as a novelist, including what genre to write in, career advice, traditional vs new publishing opportunities, not giving up, time management, and learning the craft

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLake Ozark Press
    Release dateAug 17, 2018
    ISBN9781632080882
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    A Guide for the New Novelist
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    Laurent Boulanger

    Laurent Boulanger was Australian Correspondent for Writers’ News, UK’s largest circulating magazine for writers for 12 years, where he advised readers on potential publishing markets. He has also published over thirty freelance articles in a variety of magazines both in Australia and the USA. As an author, Laurent has written Murder on 45th Street, a novella for ESL students with accompanying CDs, published in 2002 by BELT Books, a division of Pascal Publishing, to a worldwide market. His literary novel The Girl From France was published in 2006 by independent small press outfit The Rock View Press, and the e-book version won the 2014 Global Ebook Awards for Best Multicultural Fiction and the 2014 Paris Book Festival Award for Best Ebook (all categories, five languages). His literary novel The Novelist won the Grand Prize (all genres and categories) and the Best General Fiction Award at the 2016 Pacific Rim Book Festival. His crime novel Better Dead Than Never was a Crime Writers Association of Australia (CWAA) 2007 Best First Crime Novel finalist, and the e-book version won the 2014 eLit Bronze Award for Best Multicultural Fiction. First Kill won an Tom Howard Honorable Mention for Best Crime Fiction. Second Cut won the 2015 Hollywood Book Festival Best Sequel Award, and The Kristina Melina Omnibus: First Kill, Second Cut, Third Victim won a 2015 Honorable Mention for Best Compilations/Anthologies.

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