A Book That Grabs You
At the book launch party for KILLING SILENCE last week, I heard the words every author wants to hear: "I couldn't put it down until I finished it."
We're not cruel people. We really don't want our readers to go without eating or sleeping. But we do enjoy thinking that we caught you up in the world we created and made you reluctant to leave it.
It happens to me, too. I stayed up late to finish FALL OF GIANTS, Ken Follett's WWI epic, and now I'm hooked on FINGERSMITH, which is very different but oh-so-compelling.
We all read books that are pleasant enough or books that teach us something or books that contain characters we like to learn about. But it's books that grab us that we remember, the ones that we can't forget when we must put them down or even when we finish reading them. I guess that's why series are so popular. We want to know what happened next to that character or in that place or era.
As a reader, I'm always looking to buy books like that. As a writer, I'm always striving to create them.
We're not cruel people. We really don't want our readers to go without eating or sleeping. But we do enjoy thinking that we caught you up in the world we created and made you reluctant to leave it.
It happens to me, too. I stayed up late to finish FALL OF GIANTS, Ken Follett's WWI epic, and now I'm hooked on FINGERSMITH, which is very different but oh-so-compelling.
We all read books that are pleasant enough or books that teach us something or books that contain characters we like to learn about. But it's books that grab us that we remember, the ones that we can't forget when we must put them down or even when we finish reading them. I guess that's why series are so popular. We want to know what happened next to that character or in that place or era.
As a reader, I'm always looking to buy books like that. As a writer, I'm always striving to create them.
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