How do you engage and disrupt genre tropes to hook your readers?

Construct questions that will help you see your novel in new ways.

Learn how to spot possible plot problems in your novel and how to fix them.

What is Chekhov’s gun principle and why do you need to add it to your revision checklist?

Plot reversals can add drama and energy to a plot that is dragging.

Austen turns up the suspense on two long-simmering subplots.

Austen stitches the broken thread of her plot back into the narrative.

See the moment Austen activates a key backstory element to enliven the plot.

Austen provides the dangerous Mrs Clay as a suspenseful subplot, not resolved until the end of the novel.

How and why your characters and plot should work together to create a book that readers can’t put down.