The Craft Behind the Story: A Systematic Guide to Structuring and Revising Fiction, Second Edition.
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The first edition, published in 2026 as Narrative Structure: A Textbook, had twelve chapters. This second edition, also of 2026, is revised for practising novelists and retitled. It adds six new chapters (Non-linear and Multi-timeline Architecture, Chapter 8; The Middle, Chapter 11; Arc and Theme, Chapter 12; The Reveal, Chapter 15; Series and Genre, Chapter 17; and The Structural Edit, Chapter 18), an Introduction and six appendices, and it is published in two layers: Core, the reader’s edition, and Reference, the full text behind each chapter.