The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel

by Jodie Archer

Perhaps it is fair to speculate that the portion of the American public that actually reads fiction likes to read more or less about itself.

The model’s favorite manuscript of the past thirty years was The Circle by Dave Eggers.

Her employer is in fact a futuristic tech company that looks a lot like what would happen if Google and Facebook had an illegitimate love child and then dressed it in Apple hardware.