The Everything Guide to Writing Your First Novel: All the tools you need to write and sell your first novel (Everything® Series) Paperback – December 16, 2010

If you are interested in writing a novel but you dont know where to start, get this book. It walks you through formulating an idea, premise, building/developing characters, plot, setting, and even pitching your book. It has examples and writing prompts. This a 101 course in a book.

The book was complete and thorough could’ve used some more concrete examples to demonstrate the aforementioned idea plenty of resources to draw from definitely worth my time and money

The Everything Guide to Writing Your First Novel has been a great help. It is so easy to follow, understand, and implement on your own work. This guide really helps you stay organized. I have gifted it to a couple of people and it has been a great help. If you're writing your first novel then this book is a very useful tool.

This book is an amazing resource! I had an idea for a fiction book come out of the blue and I didn't know the first thing about writing fiction novels. This book has helped me tremendously! It covers all of the basics of writing a novel and much more. Thank you so much writing this book. It's been a life saver!

Item arrived right on time in a good condition. I haven't started reading it yet and when I do I will update this accordingly. However, just know the size of this book is not something you can roll in your pocket or grab on the go without a bag. It is a lightweight medium size textbook. The pages flip smoothly and the font size makes a pleasant read.

Easy quick read pep talk for first time novelists. I feel energized and ready to thrash out my novel in 6 months, although I have a sneaking suspicion that it is going to very likely be a bit more complicated than Hallie Ephron makes out.

This is a very comprehensive and quite inspirational book which I would recommend to both beginning and intermediate writers. Very good value for the money. Liz

I teach fiction writing classes for the Community Education component at Doña Ana Community College. This book has everything I use in my weekly lessons and my students seem to enjoy it.(I bought the book myself, knowing that my own writing would benefit after I read what Ephron had to say.)