When the library graduate diploma doesn’t work out for you, there’s always a future pumping out bodice-ripping novels. Leopoldina Van Wowser Ainswright (best selling author of A Quiet Sennight to Undulating Tranquility, Antipodean Odyssey and A Fistful of Phosphorescence) shares her professional advice for the first time, providing precious guidance and insight into the fine art of romance, lust, and sexual oppression.
She’ll hold your delicate Alabaster hand and carefully guide you around all those tricky issues: how to name characters, appropriately reference genitalia, select location, sub genre and plot devices. It’s all about ravishment, suspense, more ravishment, sexual oppression, resolution, wholesomeness and did we say ravishment.
It’s also about creating one-dimensional third persons before disposing of them thoughtfully in the second last chapter, creating the right kind of writing environment to write your bodice-ripping novel, and knowing just the right kind of cover letter to send to the publishers. Van Wowser-Ainswright even includes helpful "here’s one I wrote earlier" examples for characterisations and scenarios to show just how easily it comes to her. Rip into it.
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