novelist
Long-form fiction writer
A novelist is a writer who writes novels—book-length works of fiction.
The term distinguishes such writers from those who work primarily in short stories, poetry, journalism, or nonfiction: She's a novelist, not a poet.
The novelist spent three years completing her latest work.
One who tells events
- raconteurSkilled storyteller
- chroniclerWriter of historical accounts
- fabulistMoral tale composer
- yarn-spinnerOne who tells tales
mythmaker · tale-teller · allegorist · wordsmith · storyteller · sage · scribe
Original text before publication
- draftingCreating technical blueprints
- plottingDevising a secret plan
- characterizationDescribing distinctive qualities
- narrativeAccount of events
prose · dialogue · theme · structure · pacing · voice · style · revision
Imagined narrative work
- literary fictionProse emphasizing craft and depth
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- romanceLove and its excitement
fantasy · science fiction · historical fiction · horror · crime · satire · magical realism · dystopian
Company releasing books
- editorOne who revises text
- bestsellerHigh-volume publication
- literary agentAuthor's publishing intermediary
- advanceMove or progress forward
royalties · hardcover · paperback · edition · imprint · trilogy · series · blurb
Fictitious professional name
- pen nameAuthor's assumed identity
- nom de plumeAuthor's false identity
- recluseOne choosing isolation
- prolificProducing abundantly and often
narrator
One who tells events
- raconteurSkilled storyteller
- chroniclerWriter of historical accounts
- fabulistMoral tale composer
yarn-spinner · mythmaker · tale-teller · allegorist · wordsmith · storyteller · sage · scribe
manuscript
Original text before publication
- draftingCreating technical blueprints
- plottingDevising a secret plan
- characterizationDescribing distinctive qualities
narrative · prose · dialogue · theme · structure · pacing · voice · style · revision · editing
fiction
Imagined narrative work
- literary fictionProse emphasizing craft and depth
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
romance · fantasy · science fiction · historical fiction · horror · crime · satire · magical realism · dystopian · gothic
publisher
Company releasing books
- editorOne who revises text
- bestsellerHigh-volume publication
- literary agentAuthor's publishing intermediary
advance · royalties · hardcover · paperback · edition · imprint · trilogy · series · blurb · foreword
pseudonym
Fictitious professional name
- pen nameAuthor's assumed identity
- nom de plumeAuthor's false identity
- recluseOne choosing isolation
prolific · ghostwriter · memoirist · autobiographer · bohemian
Dickens
Surname of Victorian novelist
- AustenLiterary family name
- Dostoevsky19th-century Russian author
- WoolfCanine surname variant
Tolstoy · Hemingway · Morrison · Rushdie · Atwood · Balzac · Proust · Brontë · Flaubert · Turgenev
- writersauthor, writer, poet, journalist, essayist
- Novel Writingstoryteller, fiction writer, book author, prose writer, plot
- storytellersstorytellers, narrator, narrators, tale-teller, tale spinner
- humanities careershistorian, philosopher, linguist, archaeologist, anthropologist
- writingwriting, drafting, authors, author, books
- creatorsartist, author, composer, designer, inventor
novelistpoet
Writer of verse
playwright · short story writer · screenwriter · dramatist · essayist
novelistreader
One who peruses text
book reviewer · literary critic · audience · consumer · bibliophile
novelisthistorian
Expert on past events
biographer · journalist · memoirist · documentarian · reporter
- romance novelistAuthor of love stories
- mystery novelistAuthor of whodunits
- crime novelistAuthor of detective fiction
- popular novelistWidely-read fiction writer
- graphic novelistCreator of illustrated books
- Victorian novelist19th-century British fiction writer
novelists, novelistic, novelize, novelization, novelized, novelizes, novelizing, novelizations