<div><p>Discover Your Voice and Enthrall Readers!</p><p>The craft of writing is filled with various debates: Should I include a prologue? Should I delete all adverbs from my manuscript? Just how much backstory--if any--can I include in my story? These questions--and their often-contradictory answers--can cause confusion, frustration, and even paralysis in the writer.</p><p><i>The Irresistible Novel</i> frees you from the limits of so-called &quot;rules&quot; and instead provides you with a singular goal: You must engage your readers from beginning to end. Filled with down-to-earth discussions on the various debates of writing, as well as innovative research on neuroscience and reader response, this book shows you how to:</p><ul><li>Navigate the various debates on writing fiction--showing versus telling, purple prose, outlining, writing description, and more--to decide what kind of novelist you want to be.</li><li>Hack your reader's brain to hook her interest and trigger emotional engagement from the very first page.</li><li>Incorporate enduring elements of storytelling from masters like Joseph Campbell, Aristotle, and Carl Jung.</li></ul>Readers want to be swept away by your stories. When you eschew the rules and focus on your readers' desires, you're free to write truly irresistible fiction.<p></p></div>