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From mystery to military to making fiction more powerful, you're sure to find something entertaining and educational along this road. 

Todd's best-selling books have won a variety of awards, from the Digital Literature Institute's Best of Fiction to the Love Designers' coveted "Rosebud."  

NOVELIST'S BOOT CAMP
Get it written--get it done! 101 hard-core ways to take your fiction from boring to bestseller! They love it on Amazon.com Order yours

Download the Novelist's Boot Camp Table of Contents and two Drills here!

NEW MYSTERY!  
Jonathan Kraag is back!
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
It’s tough to solve a dead cop’s murder when there’s no hard evidence; it’s tougher still when the cops don’t want to believe the crime ever happened. It gets even more difficult when small town politicians fight scorched earth turf wars, and when a high-priced,well-connected crime consultant sets you up to take the rap for not only that crime, but a half-dozen other homicides as well, even a former FBI profiler and “black Ops” agent can find himself backed into a deadly corner. Order yours here or here

CLOSE TO HOME 
When a brutal killer with a bloody sense of revenge CLOSE TO HOME 
When a brutal killer with a bloody sense of revenge

THE BEST DEFENSE
Gusty Army Major Val Macintyre and her rag-tag band of third-string wannabe soldiers are all that stand between a remote nuclear weapons depot and a legion of biotech- enhanced super-patriots. (out of print--available from the author's sales representative) Order yours

--“A real tour de force…a military thriller written equally as much for women as for men …An action-packed story that grabs you from the start.” --Murder and Mayhem Reviews

KRIEGSPIEL
A book about warriors by a warrior. Smell the cordite and gunsmoke of modern armored war in the NY Times Review of Books acclaimed KRIEGSPIEL Outnumbered and outgunned, a by-the-book army colonel and a break-all-the-rule Green Beret face off against the armored forces of a new Fourth Reich. (out of print--available from the author's sales representative) Order yours

 

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NOVELIST'S BOOT CAMP is
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"Top 10 Book of 2008"
 



Take Your Fiction From Boring To Bestseller!

Novelist's Boot Camp is now available at Barnes & Noble or on the Amazon website.  Move out and get your writing squared away today!

It’s time to plan and execute a writing strategy that’s in sync with your ultimate mission objective: getting published. 

In Novelist’s Boot Camp, author Todd A. Stone, a former assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, draws on his experience as novelist, writing instructor, and military officer to help get you and your writing into tip-top shape. 

This boot-camp-in-a-book includes 101 carefully crafted drills designed to show you how to: 

• Identify and develop story ideas with laser-like perception 
• Create realistic "alpha" characters who can take charge of any scene 
• Know what motivates your protagonist’s enemy so that you can amp up the conflict 
• Outline your story to avoid sneak attacks from flawed plot twists 
• Dodge the land mines of bad writing like Deadly Modifier Buildup (DMBU) 
• Triage your scenes to ensure a thorough and precise revision process 

Plus, there’s a twelve-week boot camp battle plan that you can use to stay the course and finish your novel. 

Novelist’s Boot Camp provides you with all the ammunition you need to approach your work with dedication, confidence, and skill. Now, report for duty and start writing that bestseller!

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