John Dean – Crime Writer

Writers can create the finest landscapes, devise the greatest plots and produce the most remarkable prose but they cannot make their narrative truly come to life unless they have devised effective characters. It is your characters who tell your stories, who bring your ideas to life, who engage the reader’s imagination, who make them laugh and cry, celebrate triumph and mourn loss. Put simply, a book lacking in well-drawn characters will fail”

Are you an emerging writer seeking to learn about the craft of creating fiction and keen to receive more plain-spealing advice. like this? Then a book written by best-selling novelist John Dean, in which he examines the craft behind fiction, could well be for you. The above extract is the beginning to the creating characters section.

In On Writing, John, who is best known for his crime novels, 26 of which have been published by The Book Folks, a Joffe Books company, sets out to help emerging writers who are learning their craft and also to give readers an insight into the way writers approach fiction.

In the wide-ranging book, John, who has taught creative writing classes to student of all ages for more than twenty five years, examines everything from the creation of plots, characters and landscapes to writing with pace, beating writers’ block and editing.

He also examines different genres, including crime fiction, fantasy, ghost stories and children’s books, and provides useful information which it comes to approaching publishers and agents and preparing a manuscript for self-publication.

The book can be purchased in ebook and paperback format on Amazon.

More information on John Dean can be found at http://www.johndeancrimewriter.co.uk