Description:

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