Brick by Brick is now available!

My new writing craft book, Brick by Brick: How to Build a Story, is available now from all major retailers and in all popular formats: ebook, trade paperback, and hardcover.

From the book blurb:

Most writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.

And on and on and on.

Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.

The problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story.

Those craft books are the equivalent of telling a rookie construction worker, "Here's how to use a hammer, saw, level, screwdrivers, band saw, power drill, etc. Got that? Great! Now go build a house."

In this book, Douglas Smith, a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction," takes a different approach.

In these pages, Doug will show how to design that house so that you can build it. You'll learn how to create a blueprint for your story idea to take you from inspiration to story structure, a structure you can then build, brick by brick.

Or rather, scene by scene.

As an extra bonus, the book includes the full version of "Scream Angel," my award-winning story that is the source of most of the examples I use in the book.

If that sounds like a book that might help you on your writing journey, then click here to order Brick by Brick from your favorite retailer. Available in ebook, trade paperback, and hardcover.