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As I promised in the previous post, I’ve turned my beady eye to current bestsellers and read through some of the Amazon bestselling rankings reviews. These are some of the words the readers and critics used about them: The Thread – Victoria Hislop Twin timeline, discovery, history, fast narrative, sense of pace, fresh, intrepid storytelling, […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!July 16th, 2012 | Tags: Books, Characters, emotion, Feedback, mystery, thriller, well-paced story | Category: Authors, Books, Genres, Readers, Writing skills | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) When I mentioned to a new friend that I wrote thrillers with an alternate history setting, she batted aside (or maybe ignored) the alternate history bit and asked, “What do you call a thriller, then?”. Er, isn’t it obvious? Apparently not. Merriam-Webster defines a thriller as “a work of fiction or drama designed to hold […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!Drafting my latest query letter, I did a little exercise. No, not twenty press-ups on the floor, but one prompted by this particular agency’s submission guidelines. As part of the marketing approach, I was asked to thinking of two to three (i.e. three) comparable books. That wasn’t a problem, but it started me thinking about […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends! |
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