How to Write a Novel
From Idea to Book

Extraordinarily well put together. Joanna combines a decade+ of real-world indie author experience & all the advice she's heard from speaking with hundreds of other novelists. If your looking to enhance your writing craft look no further, this book's so incredible that I'm going back now to take not......more

Joanna Penn shares her substantial breadth of experience and knowledge to help walk authors through writing a novel, from the approach to the planning to the nitty-gritty of drafting and editing. A practical, straightforward, eminently useful guide.......more

Although my writing genre is memoir, I've been dipping in and out of How To Write a Novel for around ten months now. It's been useful on many levels. It includes practical advice for many areas, such as whether to plot, how to research, self-editing, choosing an editor, working with beta readers and......more

I especially like Joanna Penn's approach in this book because she embraces the idea that there is no exact way one has to write a novel. Though Penn is more of a discovery writer (pantser), she doesn't try to force what works for her onto the reader. This book would be equally helpful for those who......more

Writing a book is a hairy scary idea. If you've started, it's easy to quit. If you haven't started, it's easier never to begin. But there is a way to approach writing a book, and even better, getting it done, and it starts with reading How To Write A Novel. Joanna Penn shares practical information t......more