Rob Parnell's Writing Academy

Topic: WRITING GENRE THRILLERS

Level: Beginner

Duration: 4 hours approx

Delivery: Text, PDF

RPWA Certificate: Yes

It’s Rob Parnell - author of over 30 number one bestsellers - here with something that I’m sure will thrill you!

When it comes to the mainstream bestseller lists, one particular genre stands tall. So much so, it’s probably seen as the most ‘respectable’. It is, of course, the thriller.

Not only do thrillers make authors and their publishers very rich, they also make the most money in terms of film and TV rights, generating vast revenues worldwide. Thrillers are also in hot demand for translation, serial and resell rights. Authoring a series of thrillers can literally catapult your career and your earning potential to the stars!

Just look at the success of Dan Brown, Matthew Reilly, John Grisham, Jeffrey Deaver, Lee Child, James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Richard North Patterson, Jonathan Kellerman, Michael Crichton, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky - the list goes on and on - all of whom make a very respectable living crafting taut, psychological suspense fiction.

Wouldn’t you like to emulate the success of these authors? Sure you would. Now you can.

This new and fully updated resource takes you through the critical basics of writing modern thrillers for publication.

From creating classic heroes and heroines, unforgettable villains, through research and plotting story, handling action and building suspense into great denouements, to style, tone, credibility, etc, etc – in fact, everything you might need to start a career in this exciting arena of commercial storytelling.

Here are the contents:

Introduction: The Thriller: Form and Function. An analysis of the genre, its history, and place in our culture, including a comprehensive overview of sub-genres.

Lesson One: Imagining Classic Characters, your key to success. We explore how to create and develop believable personalities that will stand the test of time.

Lesson Two: Effective Research including easy, no cost ways to give your fiction total veracity – from info and advice on police procedure to medical trauma and law.

Lesson Three: Backward Plotting – the secret to stretching the fictional envelope, and keeping those twists turning ever tighter.

Lesson Four: Sex, Guns, and Vitriol. How a stirring mix of ingredients can mark you out as a writer of originality and panache.

Lesson Five: Outwitting the Foe: How set-up and preparation are essential to convincing resolutions, plus how to use false clues and secondary characters to intriguing effect.

Lesson Six: Serialization. How to make your best sellers run and run. Little known tactics for ensuring readers (and publishers!) clamor to buy your next book.

All this plus lots of useful exercises and writing advice that will build your raw ideas into a credible and compelling story in no time at all!. By absorbing this information, you will be able to create a complete template for a stunning piece of novel length fiction and gain a solid grounding in the requirements of this genre.

After payment through our completely secure server, you will be taken to the Academy dashboard where you can take the course at your leisure, or, if you want, download the entire course contents instantly.

Rob Parnell
Your Personal Instructor