From Writer's Digest Books

No More Rejections:  50 Secrets to Writing A Manuscript that Sells by Alice Orr

Hardback, 264 pages

It's often said that "rejection is a part of the writing business," and aspiring writers are advised to learn to live with being rejected again and again. Not anymore! With the invaluable hints in No More Rejections, readers will learn how to turn "No" into "Yes."

Successful literary agent, author, and former editor Alice Orr combines lessons on craft with lessons on marketing to create a series of tips and techniques that help writers think about their book's marketability while they write it. Chapters feature lessons on: *Scoping out salable story ideas *Creating compelling characters *Writing an opening sentence that sizzles *Crafting sex scenes that satisfy *And more!

From writing the story itself to writing the pitch that sells the story, this book has it all!

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Reviews & News:

• "Because Alice Orr has been an author, editor and agent, she can approach a manuscript from all ends of the process." Michelle Ruberg, Editor, F&W Publications
   

• "From writing the story itself to the pitch that sells the story, this book has it all!" Amazon.com

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 Sell, sell, sell. Rather than writing a book and then trying to sell it, in No More Rejections: 50 Secrets to Writing a Manuscript That Sells (F&W/Writer's Digest Books, Mar.) Alice Orr encourages writers to consider questions of marketability from the beginning. Says F&W associate editor Michelle Ruberg, "Because Alice has been an author, editor and agent, she can approach a manuscript from all ends of the process. She gives advice on writing technique, but also on what to think about when you're writing so that an agent, and then an editor, will accept the manuscript."