Guest Post: Gillian French on Hooking Readers: How to Build Suspense

By Gillian French
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

Cynsations Note: 

What scares you? Snakes? Spiders? Bigfoot? It's different for everyone. Likewise, authors use different approaches for building suspense. 

Our Halloween treat for you is a glimpse at techniques from two YA authors for upping the stakes. 

We suspect this is a topic you want to know more about, because the most popular Cynsations posts of all time is April Henry's guest post on adding tension.

So,without further...