I reviewed Nail Your Novel: Why Writers Abandon Books & How You Can Draft, Fix & Finish With Confidence by Roz Morris here. I liked it so much I bought both her other books and I have just finished reading Nail Your Novel: Bring Characters To Life.
Having finished my first novel Bad Dog, which is at a publisher being read, I've been using the space to consolidate my writing given the feedback I have received from my Beta readers of my second novel Strike Dog, where the main thing I took away was that my characters weren't differentiated enough, and even where they were, they were annoying jerks. Roz Morris has some interesting things to say about both of these problems in this book.
I finished reading her book this morning just in time to received the feedback from my Alpha reader on my third novel Ghost Dog. Fortunately, having written the first drafts of all three novels in 2013, time really does give one a sense of distance when having to deal with criticism, even very constructive criticism. So this is me trying to assimilate advice and put it into practice as I work on re-drafting the current versions of both sequels. As such, I can strongly recommend the Nail Your Novel books to anyone who is struggling to write a novel to a professional standard.
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