title: Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication and Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams
author:  Heather Sellers 
description: Every book is a lonely journey, but Chapter After Chapter provides the wisdom, inspiration, and wit needed to help writers go that difficult distance and not feel so very alone.<br /> --N.M. Kelby, author of Whale Season and forthcoming Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill
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  **MIKE RESNICK**
  
  BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK
  
   **TABLE OF CONTENTS**
  
   _ _Title Page__
  
   _ _Dedication__
  
   _ _Prologue__
  
   _Part 1_
  
   _Chapter 1_
  
   _Chapter 2_
  
   _Chapter 3_
  
   _Chapter 4_
  
   _Chapter 5_
  
   _Chapter 6_
  
   _Chapter 7_
  
   _Chapter 8_
  
   _Chapter 9_
  
   _Chapter 10_
  
   _Chapter 11_
  
   _Chapter 12_
  
   _Part 2_
  
   _Chapter 13_
  
   _Chapter 14_
  
   _Chapter 15_
  
   _Chapter 16_
  
   _Chapter 17_
  
   _Chapter 18_
  
   _Chapter 19_
  
   _Chapter 20_
  
   _Chapter 21_
  
   _Chapter 22_
  
   _Chapter 23_
  
   _Chapter 24_
  
   _Part 3_
  
   _Chapter 25_
  
   _Chapter 26_
  
   _Chapter 27_
  
   _Chapter 28_
  
   _Chapter 29_
  
   _Chapter 30_
  
   _Part 4_
  
   _Chapter 31_
  
   _Chapter 32_
  
   _Chapter 33_
  
   _Chapter 34_
  
   _Part 5_
  
   _Chapter 35_
  
   _ _Other Books by Mike Resnick__
  
   _ _Copyright__
  
  To Carol, as always  
    
  And to Kristine Kathryn Rusch  
  and Dean Wesley Smith  
  fine writers  
  fine editors  
  finer friends
  
   **PROLOGUE**
  
  She awoke to a dull throbbing at the base of her skull. 