How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies: Sweet and Savory Tips for the Writing Life

Amy Wallen's How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies provides comfort food and inspiration for aspiring novelists, combining experienced writing advice with illustrations and recipes for literary success. Wallen believes that the key to surviving the writing process is to work hard, laugh, and eat pie, and the book offers encouragement and camaraderie for the novel-writing journey.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 22 December 2022
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Providing comfort food and inspiration for the aspiring novelist, How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies offers novelist and writing coach Amy Wallens insider secrets on living the writing life. Filled with chapters about writing, revising, submitting to an agent, and book promotion, this book combines Wallen's experienced writing advice with the brilliant illustrations of Emil Wilson, including recipes for literary success and the full recipes for 20 sweet and savory pies.

As a novelist, memoirist, and associate director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute, Amy Wallen has a few things to say about the writing world, many of them irreverent and snarky. From her perspective as a teacher, mentor, and published author, her belief is that the way to survive the hard knocks of writing a book and trying to get published is to bust a gut working, laughing, and eating pie.

With chapters including "Oh Agent, Where Art Thou?", "Revising, Rewriting, and Reimagining," and "The Joy of Rejection," Wallen balances out the challenging stages of the writing process with both sweet and savory goodness, featuring recipes for chocolate pecan pie, salmon and portobello pie, and the recipe for the best cherry pie ever.

Throughout the book, Wallen demystifies the vagaries of the publishing business, providing delicious recipes that will keep your belly full even when you're staring at an empty page. Her writing advice is neatly paired with the brilliant illustrations of Emil Wilson, who shares her sharp wit, sardonic look at the demands of the writing life, and her mad love of pie. Combined, the stories, lessons, images, and recipes will provide encouragement and camaraderie for the novel-writing journey, from putting pen to page to finding an agent, to celebrating publication—all with a piece of pie.

Weight: 614g
Dimension: 228 x 179 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781524875657