Excellent book. Filled with good examples from a vast variety of real authors, from John Steinbeck to Danielle Steel to students work before it was published. The examples showed both what not to do as well as what to do. The book was structured really well and there were good exercises at the end of each chapter for those who look for that kind of thing. I really liked that there was a summary of each chapter at the end as well. For those chapters about things I feel I do well in my writing, I was able to just read the summary and see if I missed anything (or was completely off base). There were some pet peeves I see in writing all the time that were addressed here, such as constantly changing POV. If you have that issue, please read this book! I highly recommend this for a newer writer. If you're having trouble getting published, I think this would really help a lot.