Agent Joyce Holland on Show, don't tell

I just read Mike's blog from today, Sept. 14, where he said…  (You know I am not going to tell you the whole story because you'd know the ending and wouldn't buy my book! Hell, I wouldn't buy a book I knew the ending to before I'd read it.) I found his remark funny because I just had a discussion with a client who wrote a book with a vague ending. He said he did it because in the real world things never resolve smoothly, there are always loose ends. My reaction to that was short and fast...