Help your authors craft suspenseful prose
that compels readers to stay on the page

Not sure how to fix poorly crafted suspense in fiction?
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Suspense is an opportunity to engage. When it misses the mark, readers lose interest.

​I'll teach you how to fix that.

This course introduces fiction editors and authors to the suspense trifecta – a user-friendly frame of reference that helps you identify suspense points at scene level, evaluate their success and revise with confidence.

Price

£82.99 (+ tax)

Format

Self-paced

Access

No time restrictions

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The learning process

Webinar

Watch the video and prepare for the practice exercises.

21 practice exercises

Test what you've learned by evaluating real examples of fiction.

21 model answers

Compare your work with how I tackled the exercises.

Transcript

Deaf students can access closed captions. A PDF transcript of the webinar is also included.

Book

Includes my bestselling book Editing Fiction at Sentence Level.​

3-book boxset

Includes the 3-book Fiction Editing Collection.​

Resources to help you read and learn

In addition to the webinar, this course includes four of my popular fiction-editing ebooks, and a set of 21 practice exercises and model answers.
The practice exercises went far beyond what I was expecting ...
The suspense trifecta framework is genius. Now I feel confident about assessing suspense and explaining my recommendations to my clients. The practice exercises went far beyond what I was expecting. Such a great course. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to beta test it.
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Who is this course suitable for?​
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Wondering whether this course is for you? I recommend it for anyone who falls into one of the following categories:
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  • Experienced non-fiction editors who want to switch to fiction.
  • Fiction proofreaders who want to expand their skill set and move into line editing.
  • Fiction copyeditors with strong technical skills who want to develop stylistic craft at sentence level.
  • Beginner and developing authors who want to improve their draft-revision skills.