The distillation of more than a decade's experience in writing, editing, submitting and publishing by the author of more than a dozen novels and facilitator of the East Valley Writer's Critique Group, this book is full of helpful hints you'll find useful at whatever stage of the publishing process you find yourself. Using this book as a guide, you can write and publish your novel. Well organized, with separate chapters on the mechanics of writing, genres, premise, action & conflict, suspense, plotting, story-boarding, queries, synopses, self-publishing, how to avoid "writer's block," and find agents and publishers, it guides novices through the entire process from idea to completed book.