Create a Character Clinic

Are you selling your fiction yet?

Editors reject most books because the characters fall flat. Full-time professional novelist Holly Lisle offers her method for creating and writing compelling fictional characters that sell to editors ... and readers.

Includes:

What makes a character interesting (and what doesn't)

Techniques for giving your characters compelling needs that resonate with readers

How to use the seven critical areas of character development to prevent "cardboard characters" and address areas of your characters' lives you've never considered before

Techniques for developing characters' individual voices

Three ways of presenting your character, with proven techniques in each

Fifteen deadly sins writers commit with their characters, and how you can avoid them -- or better yet, turn them to your advantage and use them to surprise, excite, and delight your readers