Why are your short stories always being rejected? What's the secret to selling your work? Drawing on her own experiences, and those of writers and in-the-know fiction editors, top writer Della Galton shares the secrets of her success. Find out how to make your characters memorable, your plots realistic and your twists unpredictable. With the help of this book you can turn those snippets of conversations, overheard in the supermarket, into inspirational ideas. A must-have book for writers from the publishers of the best-selling writing book Wannabe a Writer and How to Write a Pantomime.