They’re called plot twists. You’ll recognize them almost immediately because one minute you’re reading, happily turning the pages faster and faster, and then suddenly, wham! You have to read the sentence again. You re-read the paragraph. You go back a couple of pages, and you think to yourself: WTF? What just happened? Continue reading “8 Great Thriller Plot Twists — Why 4 Of Them Are Perfect”
Month: January 2018
The Good & Bad News About E-Books: An Indie Author’s Tips For Success
If you’re a reader nothing beats the ease of downloading a book to your Kindle. No matter that you prefer to hold the real thing in your hot little hands. When you hear about a brand new thriller, and you just have to have it right now, right this minute, then you can. A couple of clicks, and an 80,000 word novel is delivered wirelessly to you in less than a minute.
If you’re an author and you want your novel to be available on Kindle, it works the same way — but in reverse. You write and format your manuscript, and a couple of clicks later, you’re uploading it to Amazon where it’s then available to millions of readers. Continue reading “The Good & Bad News About E-Books: An Indie Author’s Tips For Success”
New Serial Killer Thriller Is Must-See TV
If you binge-watched the fabulous true crime drama Mindhunter , and you’re now wondering where your next serial killer thriller fix is going to come from, wonder no longer. A TV series, La Mante (The Mantis) airing on Netflix is equally binge-worthy — even though it’s totally fictional. I hope.
The series is in six episodes, and is subtitled. I read somewhere that a dubbed version is available, but I didn’t check that out. Subtitles don’t bother me. In fact, I could even welcome them for English- language TV shows, given the “mumbly” bad sound of a lot of British and American TV on flat screens nowadays. In any event, the series was definitely must-see TV for me since one of the main characters in the new thriller I’m writing is the son of an executed serial killer. Continue reading “New Serial Killer Thriller Is Must-See TV”
Fire And Fury– Or Just A Big Baby– Inside the Trump White House
First thing yesterday morning, I cancelled all my appointments, my morning tennis game and lunch, and waited for the clock to roll around to 9 A.M. for the delivery of my copy of the new Trump tell-all book. The publishers of Michael Wolff’s Fire And Fury: Inside the Trump White House, in response to a cease-and-desist letter from Trump’s lawyers, had decided to bring forward the publication date to yesterday morning. Continue reading “Fire And Fury– Or Just A Big Baby– Inside the Trump White House”