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 it’s 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!
Few science fiction authors are capable of marrying ideas and entertainment—one is often sacrificed for the other—but Watters peppers one gripping “dream sequence” after another with cutting details that more often than not are ferociously intense and furiously kinetic.
An intelligent and portentous read that will work as a wish-fulfilment fantasy for many science fiction fans Dream Phaze – Gemination introduces us to the idea of experiencing realities far beyond the reach of our waking minds!
The magical allure of time travel has held a fascination for the layman and scientist alike. Indeed, no well-read individual can think of time travel without their mind creeping back to H.G Wells.
With its relentless pace and clever plot, Zipline makes for an appealing and compelling read but it’s not a read to be rushed with it being the progress of Michael’s plot, not the process, which makes Zipline particularly intriguing.
In a mind-bending investigation into the nature of reality, Tom Arant invites his readers to dive headlong into the proverbial rabbit hole with arguments that are intellectually rigorous and worryingly convincing!
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Moore appreciates the value of having fun with a plot, turning its clichés into fresh experiences and infusing energy into the margins of what might otherwise have been a predictable story and on this level, Explosive Forces works great as both unconventional crime thriller and offbeat romance.
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