Learn to write your novel with this all-in-one guide to planning, writing, editing, and publishing a first novel.YOURNOVEL, DAY BY DAY guides a new novelist through the day-to-day detailsof the creative process. It is designed to support the goals of writersin all genres, from mystery fiction to literary fiction to sciencefiction, so that each reader can develop the writing skills needed toset and exceed creativity goals. Its author, Mary Anna Evans, is anawardwinning writer with ten novels, two nonfiction books, and acollection of short works to her credit. She says, “This is the bookwhere I tell other writers the things I wish I’d known ten years ago.”Work through this book of practical advice with Mary Anna, day by day and page by page, as she advises you on—crafting a plot,fleshing out believable characters,organizing a novel’s timeline,crafting believable character motivations,editing objectively,evaluating traditional and independent publishing options,and marketing to agents, publishers, and readers.Becauseshe understands the importance of maintaining your own motivationduring the arduous process of writing a novel, Mary Anna has chosen anarrative structure that will provide you with a written companion for ayear’s worth of writing. This book consists of 365 essays on topicsthat range from nuts-and-bolts writing tips to words of encouragement toperiodic kicks in the pants. She has even included the actual synopsisshe used to query her agent and to sell her first book.Theworld of publishing is changing, and a new writer has a bewilderingarray of choices—traditional publishing, self-publishing, ebooks, printbooks, audiobooks, and various combinations of all of the above—but,first, that writer’s book needs to be the best book possible. Let YOURNOVEL, DAY BY DAY: A FICTION WRITER’S COMPANION help.If MaryAnna could sit with you, day by day, as you learn about this excitingart form, she would. Since she can’t, this book is the next best thing.YOURNOVEL, DAY BY DAY: A FICTION WRITER’s COMPANION was written by mysteryauthor Mary Anna Evans. She is a founding board member of the AnhingaWriters’ Workshop and the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award inmystery fiction, the Florida Literature Award, and three Florida BookAwards Bronze medals in both commercial and general fiction. YOURNOVEL, DAY BY DAY: A FICTION WRITER’S COMPANION draws from workshopsshe has given to aspiring fiction writers across the US. Her FayeLongchamp archaeological mysteries, ARTIFACTS, RELICS, EFFIGIES,FINDINGS, FLOODGATES, STRANGERS, PLUNDER, RITUALS, and ISOLATION, havebeen compared to the work of Tony Hillerman, Aaron Elkins, and James LeeBurke. They are available in print, large-print, and audio editions.Her short stories, "A Singularly Unsuitable Word," "Starch," "Land ofthe Flowers," "Mouse House," "Twin Set," and "Low-Budget Monster Flick!"are available separately for Kindle, or as part of her collectionsOFFERINGS and JEWEL BOX: SHORT WORKS BY MARY ANNA EVANS. She is alsothe author, with Dr. Faith H. Wallace, of MATHEMATICAL LITERACY IN THEMIDDLE AND SECONDARY GRADES: A MODERN APPROACH TO SPARKING STUDENTINTEREST. She lives in Oklahoma.