I heard this a few years ago and LOVED it. Ken Follett is a master of suspense. Notice how he starts by talking about the emotion produced in the reader and getting readers emotionally involved in a story. He knows exactly what effect he’s trying to product. He also talks about how to determine whether an
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I saw this today and thought of the assignments I give in my workshops. Look at what this hugely popular writer did to learn and focus her craft: Knew what she liked and followed HER passions (she knew what rocked her). Took 4 books she loved and broke them down to look for patterns she could
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I had an absolute BLAST with Larry and the audience at LTUE. I think the workshop went very well for the first time. Of course, I’m going to make some tweaks. Paul Genesse had some interesting feedback and I’ll have to see if I can’t do more with character. Two hours is such a short period
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Laura Miller at Salon.com has it all wrong when she says promoting books with movie-style trailers is a silly idea. Here, watch this book trailer for Scott Westerfield’s Leviathan. Yeah, I know you want to–go ahead, watch it again. Miller looks at book trailers, sees that the vast majority of them are lame, lame, lame (actually,
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Here’s what this brouhaha is all about Amazon wants to try to replicate with digital books what Apple has done with digital music. So what has Apple done? According to Cnet’s “iTunes reps 1 in every 4 songs“: “iTunes-purchased songs now account for 25 percent of the overall music market–both physical and digital–in the U.S., says an NPD Group
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