
Kill or be Killed
Louis grew up in the toughest streets of Birmingham. The streets where his own friends wouldn’t think twice before stabbing him in the back. The streets where women were seen as sex objects, rather than people.
It’s easy to take it at face value and begin writing from personal experience and there are certainly a host of bestsellers out there who have made the big time by drawing on their own experiences. Authors like Andy McNab (the pseudonym and pen-name for Steven Billy Mitchell, CBE,) and Former policewoman Clare Mackintosh who’s a Sunday Times bestseller readily spring to mind but is it the depth of their procedural knowledge that fires the imagination or something a little more elusive. The thing is, simply being knowledgeable on a subject isn’t enough. There are plenty of ex-soldiers and law enforcement officers trying their hand at fiction who will never sell more than a paltry handful of books. Experience is great but only if you can turn it into fiction that comes across as authentic and to do this an author needs to connect with his or her readers on an emotional level.
To do this an author must know their characters inside out. After all, if a character doesn’t come alive for its creator who will it come alive for? Protagonists in particular need to feel like flesh and bone and to do this they need realistic traits, desires and foibles that readers can identify with.
Writing about what you know automatically puts you at an advantage, especially if its a an intriguing and controversial subject. It can be exciting too, just remember to keep it real and this age-old sage piece of advice may well catapult you to the top of the bestseller charts!
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Louis grew up in the toughest streets of Birmingham. The streets where his own friends wouldn’t think twice before stabbing him in the back. The streets where women were seen as sex objects, rather than people.
The fact is that few authors really master the art of suspense and those who do are the ones who come to understand its underpinning psychology.
They have unfinished business. But with death and sabotage dogging their every step, who’s innocent and who’s getting revenge?
A small-town sheriff will catch a predator, come hell or high water… And there’ll be no escape from the world of pain he’ll leave in his wake…
Can folklore be reality?
Part instruction manual, part ghost story collection, and part history lesson, this volume in thirteen chapters is a how-to guide for trapping an evil entity, known as a dybbuk, in a box.
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