New Snowflake Method Audiobook

I’ve just released an audiobook version of my best-selling book, How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method. The book is voiced by a terrific narrator, James L. Rubart.

Many of my Loyal Blog Readers are familiar with this book, so the short version is that you can get a copy exclusively at Amazon, Audible, or iTunes. Here are the links. You might want to click through just to listen to the audio sample, which Jim did a wonderful job on.

Amazon (The audiobook is FREE if you start a trial subscription with Audible.)
Audible (The audiobook is FREE if you start a trial subscription with Audible.)
iTunes

What the Book is About

If you don’t know what the book is about, here’s the long version:

A number of years ago, I developed a simple and easy 10-step process that walks you through the development of a novel and gives you a roadmap to write your first draft. This “Snowflake Method” works wonderfully well for people who like to have some idea where they’re going before they go there.

The Snowflake Method page on my web site has now been viewed more than six million times over the years, and the Snowflake Method is used by tens of thousands of writers around the world. I use it for writing my own novels, and it works well for me.

In 2014, I released a book titled How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method. The book has sold extremely well and continues to move loads of copies every month. In the book, I don’t just tell you how to design a novel. I SHOW you how—in a story. I do that because I believe that’s how people learn best—by living it, rather than being told about it. A story lets you live what you’re learning.

So my book is a story about a young woman who dreams of writing a novel someday, but doesn’t know how to get started.

Our heroine goes to a writing conference, where she meets a novelist and an agent. During the conference, they help her create the blueprint she needs to write her novel. But there’s trouble afoot—one of her mentors is shot. And the other mentor faces an even worse fate. Can our heroine stay on course, map out her story—and possibly right a deep wrong? (Or at least bring in World Peace?)

Just for fun, I gave the characters some crazy names. Our heroine is named Goldilocks (yes, the famous one, all grown up now with a husband and kids). Her mentor at the conference is Baby Bear, who doesn’t seem to remember that one unfortunate day when he met her long ago. The agent who’s interested in Goldilocks is The Big Bad Wolf—and you might wonder exactly why he’s so interested in her. There’s an annoying, know-it-all writer named Little Pig who wants to hire Goldilocks for his own pet project. And there’s a loony guy named Robin Hood who keeps asking Goldilocks to come visit his hideaway in Sherwood Forest.

As you can guess, I designed the story for the book using the Snowflake Method. At the end of the book, you’ll see the entire Snowflake design document that I used to write the story.

Even If You’re Not a Snowflaker, You Still Need One Thing…

Now not everybody wants to plan their novel before they write it. Some people prefer to write by the seat of their pants, and that’s a perfectly good way to write a novel. But in the end, all novelists use the same basic theory of story. So a big part of my book is given to explaining that theory. Showing that theory in action. Because everybody needs to know how story works.

In the chapter that talks about the First Disaster, for example, there’s a major disaster. In fact, it’s the First Disaster of the book, and it happens at exactly the point in the story where a First Disaster should happen. Likewise, the chapter on the Second Disaster explains why you need a Second Disaster, and does it with a disaster placed exactly where it should be—right smack at the midpoint of the story. The chapter that teaches on Proactive Scenes is written as a Proactive Scene. The chapter on Reactive Scenes is written as a Reactive Scene. It’s all very meta.

As a bonus for my readers, I’ve decided to change my discount coupon policy for my wildly popular Snowflake Pro software. If you buy any version of my book How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method, you now get a 50% discount on Snowflake Pro. This is a change of my long-standing policy, and I think it’s way overdue.

You can get all the details on the discount coupon here on this page.