Structure Your Plot to Surprise and Satisfy Readers! Plot twists are a unique element of the craft of writing used by writers of all genres - from memoirs to thrillers, screenplays to stageplays - to create unexpected twists and turns. A surprising plot twist can hook an audience and keep readers turning pages, right down to the final scene. Mastering Plots Twists is your essential guide to crafting a quick pace with more focused narrative and action, all by using the artful, unexpected plot twist. The result is more nuanced, multifaceted books that sell and develop a devoted readership. Using similar structure and techniques as the Agatha Award-winning Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot, award-winning author Jane K. Cleland will teach you to integrate thrilling moments in every genre. Inside, Cleland will show you how to: • Use plotting, structure, pacing, and subplots with the intention of developing plausible, yet surprising, twists. • Integrate plot twists into any story - not just mysteries and thrillers. • Study novels of any genre, to recognize the specific techniques writers use to surprise their readers. • Improve your writing craft with scores of cases studies, checklists, decision-making models, and exercises. Packed with pages of usable, hands-on material, Mastering Plot Twists is the key to engaging your readers throughout your narrative. AUTHOR: Jane K. Cleland writes the multiple award-winning Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series. She is well-established and well-respected in the global crime fiction writing community. She chairs the Black Orchid Novella Award, one of the Wolfe Pack's literary awards, granted in partnership with Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.