THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF AN OUTSTANDING BOOK
SURELY in the course of authoring and reading, the question has come to you as to what makes a book truly outstanding irrespective of genre. Be it a romance, bodice ripper, science fiction/fantasy/futuring, love, war, viiolence, social or political treatise, autobiography, biography, thriller, action/adventure — doesn’t matter. What is it that elevated a book to an outstanding work? My answer: tenderness.
Tenderness is a mark of empathy. Walking in another’s shoes. It’s the start of forgiveness and a step towards reclaiming life and the future that life holds. Doesn’t matter when (past, present, future or alt history), where in the universe or even another universe entirely, or who (human, animal, plant, spirit or even inanimate object). The element that transforms a mere bound sheaf of pages or digital file into something great is tenderness. It’s at the very heart of being. We can live without just about everything except some tenderness.
THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor is a lot of unique elements, but most important of all it isn’t dystopian (or utopian either), it simply includes wholly transformative moments of tenderness, that, I believe, also make it seem 3-D real. It’s what brings the reader to hope and cheer for the protagonists irrespective of how dangerous or uncertain their world. I invite readers to respond to this post with one of several moments of tenderness found in my new book and whether it made, as I suggest and hope, the book a great read.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Tenderness is a mark of empathy. Walking in another’s shoes. It’s the start of forgiveness and a step towards reclaiming life and the future that life holds. Doesn’t matter when (past, present, future or alt history), where in the universe or even another universe entirely, or who (human, animal, plant, spirit or even inanimate object). The element that transforms a mere bound sheaf of pages or digital file into something great is tenderness. It’s at the very heart of being. We can live without just about everything except some tenderness.
THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor is a lot of unique elements, but most important of all it isn’t dystopian (or utopian either), it simply includes wholly transformative moments of tenderness, that, I believe, also make it seem 3-D real. It’s what brings the reader to hope and cheer for the protagonists irrespective of how dangerous or uncertain their world. I invite readers to respond to this post with one of several moments of tenderness found in my new book and whether it made, as I suggest and hope, the book a great read.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
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