title: Chapter One: A Fast, Fun Way to Write Fiction
author:  Meredith Bond 
description: The skills outlined in the book helped me understand my opportunities in my first manuscript, but more importantly jump started my second manuscript, which is now published. <i>Vivi Pounds-Gray</i><br /><br />It's small, but very concise and packed with a lot of useful information.<br /><br />This book can easily stand on its own without her class and has very valuable information for the writer who needs some help with focus and what to do next. <i>Kat</i>
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  **Praise for**
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘A **lethally addictive** blend of **domestic suspense and hard-driving
  thriller**. Set aside some time for this one – **you won't be able to put it
  down** ’
  
  
  **A.L. GAYLIN**
  
  
  ‘A cracking book – **funny, thrilling, touching**. It’s as if mum-lit was on
  crack with shades of _Killing Eve_. This is a **thrilling, original and
  funny** read which takes spy fiction to a new level. I loved it’
  
  
  **CLAIRE ALLAN**
  
  
  ‘ **I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT**!!! It’s **so new** and **different** and
  **refreshing** and I found it **such fun** (also loved the **feminist**
  message)’
  
  
  **MARIAN KEYES**
  
  
  ‘A **riotously fun** read . . . **James Bond should retire** now: Lex Tyler
  shows him up for the tired, old has-been he is. **With prose as sharp as her
  heroine’s (actual) killer heels** , **Asia Mackay puts the sass in assassin**
  as it’s never been done before’
  
  
  **L. S. HILTON**
  
  
  ‘An annoyingly **brilliant** and **funny** first novel’
  
  
  **HUGH GRANT**
  
  
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