What Fiction Craft Books Left Out

Why craft books leave experienced authors stranded

Book cover image for What Fiction Craft Books Left Out, an ebook by Lori Puma

Craft books aren't wrong. Most advice they give is valid. They just don't go deep enough to help authors who've already mastered the basics diagnose and fix issues on their own.

Authors of novels with large fandoms aren't relying on magic. They've internalized craft that most books never cover. This ebook makes that layer visible.


What’s Inside:

  • A structural reason readers finish your novel, enjoy it, and never mention it to anyone, and the symptoms to be alert for in your manuscript.

  • The hidden architecture that separates a fictional world readers accept from one that has them spending months designing their costume for your book signing.

  • What transforms sequences from a logical series of events into a compulsive string of "just one more chapter" decisions.

  • What separates scenes readers consume and forget from the ones their loved ones get tired of hearing about.

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Hi, I’m Lori Puma. I diagnose why genre fiction novels aren't creating obsessive fans. I've read over 1,000 novels and studied 70 craft books looking for what separates the good ones from the ones readers can't stop talking about. This ebook is what I discovered.