JA Huss
Welcome to the last video in The Perfect Story Series. This time I’m gonna go through a few literary devices I use often and talk a little about editing and blurb writing. I decided to put the last two topics into one video because I really didn’t have a lot to say about editing and blurbs. 🙂
I hope you had a great 2017 and both The Perfect Year and The Perfect Story helped you (at least a little bit!) I have more author tips coming for you in December! This new series is called TOP 5 TIPS for authors and there will be one new “Top Five” posted EVERY DAY IN DECEMBER. I also got a few of my author friends to help me out (in case you’re tired of hearing just from me!) so look for that on December first.
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If you’re just coming in on this series and haven’t yet seen the previous videos they are linked below.
Beginnings
Middles and Scenes
Hooks and Endings
Pov/Characters
Settings/Series
Pacing/Suspense
Exposition/Dialogue
Sex Scenes
Literary Devices & Editing/Blurbs
About JA Huss
JA Huss is the New York Times Bestselling author of 321 and has been on the USA Today Bestseller’s list 21 times in the past four years. She writes characters with heart, plots with twists, and perfect endings.
Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook, Mr. Perfect, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her audiobook, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award and Voice Arts Award in 2018. In May 2018 MGM Television optioned five of her books (Slack, Guns, Come, Come Back, and Coming For You – collectively called THE COMPANY) for a TV Series. She and Johnathan are partners in that TV series project — in fact, they started out writing the teleplay for The Company and soon after found themselves writing novels together too.
Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.
She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.
Thanks for all the great writing tips, JA. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you Elly! I hope you have a great Thanksgiving too! 🙂
You rock! Best Thanksgiving gift ever!
Thank you so much Julie. You are awesome!
I’ve loved both your courses and have got so much out of them.
Plus it’s been just like hanging out with you 🙂
So much great info, I would have paid whatever you asked. I’d already bought all your books so I decided to support you by buying your audio books too. (I’d never done audio).
Best decision ever! I’m working my way through, just finished The Company. Love, love, love.
Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.
And I’m nearly finished writing my second book which might be half decent thanks to your awesome videos! (The first one is hidden in the bottom drawer…)
Thank you for being you.
I was sooo happy to see this video. I thought with all you had going on, you might not be able to come back to this. So thank you. I agree, there are a lot of authors charging for courses and it’s refreshing to have a person with your talents take the time to help us poor, aspiring writers. I hope you have a happy first Thanksgiving in your new home.
Thank you so much for this course. I’ve loved each and every one. Looking forward to your year’s recap. Happy Holidays!
Thank you for this series. I have shared it with some of our NaNoLosAngeles writers!!