A lot of folks hear I’m going to be published and automatically classify me with J.K. Rowling, James Patterson, or Dan Brown. Heck, I at least ought to be categorized with Joe Schmo who was featured on Oprah. And why shouldn’t they think that? Those are the authors they see. That’s what it means to them
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So how many copies do you have to sell to become a best seller? And how many authors achieve this? Best Selling Books of 2007: Hardcover, Paperback, Childrens. One person’s numbers for making #19 on the NY Times list. The Times on making their list.
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You already know how I feel about writerly rules. So when I read James Maxey’s “The Only Law of Literature,” I had to share it. I want to quote the whole thing here. But I’ll resist and quote only the conclusion. [In response to critiquing stories that don’t work for you] All the literary analysis of
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Tom Clancy is one of the biggest authors of our time. How did he break in? It’s an interesting story that Deborah Grosvenor, the editor who acquired The Hunt for Red October (Clancy’s first book), tells here. And this early interview provides more insights. So what conclusions can you draw from this? Here’s what I picked
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As new writers we want to do our best but because we haven’t yet internalized all the principles, we often want to create checklists of rules. We want to list out all the the aspects of a golden story and make sure we include them. And these lists can help. Everything I’ve learned about building
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