The Villain's Journey
(2025)How to Create Villains Readers Love to Hate
A non fiction book by Debbie Burke
You've read about the Hero's Journey but what about The Villain's Journey?
Do you want to write mysteries and thrillers that keep readers up nights? The secret lies inside the Villain.
Discover Debbie Burke's new craft-of-writing guidebook that takes you on that exciting journey.Follow the steps to the darkest depths of the human soul. Trace a character’s descent into malice, mayhem, and murder.
What you’ll learn:
Do you want to write mysteries and thrillers that keep readers up nights? The secret lies inside the Villain.
Discover Debbie Burke's new craft-of-writing guidebook that takes you on that exciting journey.Follow the steps to the darkest depths of the human soul. Trace a character’s descent into malice, mayhem, and murder.
What you’ll learn:
- The many flavors of villains, from funny to fearsome to fanatical.
How to drill inside the brain of a criminal.
Is someone born bad or do they learn to be bad?
Reasons why an ordinary person changes from law-abiding to law breaking.
Tips for an antagonist who challenges, threatens, and terrifies your hero.
How compelling criminals keep readers turning pages.
And more...
Build-a-Villain worksheets help you create unique, multi-dimensional villains for your own stories.
Even if you don’t write crime fiction, this book shows techniques to bring antagonists to life in any genre.
Travel on The Villain's Journey...if you dare!
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