Katie Fforde on the Bestseller Experiment | Understand a Reader’s Addiction

There’s a point in this week’s podcast where it all clicked for me. Katie Fforde — the multi-million selling “Godmother of Romance” — was telling me how she would read Mills & Boon romance novels on the sly when she was supposed to be working. What she understood was that books can be addictive and that if you want readers you have to feed that addiction. It’s what we mean when we talk about keeping the reader on the hook, and it’s an important lesson to learn.

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