The writing life is so different now compared to three or four years ago, when I only had one book published - especially when being a writer is a second career.
“Absolutely,” I said, when my publicist proposed this book tour. “I can do the driving. This is my home town after all.” Words that would come back to haunt me.
All the hard work of pulling your reader into the setting can be undone by careless details that break the spell for readers and take them out of the world of the novel.
Book review and analysis of writing technique. Complex emotions are needed to create powerful tensions in a story, especially if the story is character-driven. This novel shows the importance of layering on emotions when character motivations are pivotal to the story.
A publisher’s marketing activities will move the dial for book sales, but are there things an author can do to help the process? You gotta at least try.