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Your novel needs a setting. The setting must be strong and suitable for your story. However, it must not overwhelm the story. Sprinkle it in as you go. Do not write travelogues.
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To create characters for your fantasy novel you must consider your market and create characters that your readers are able to relate to, and care for. This does not mean that you reveal all there is about your characters in the first few lines, your characters a best revealed a little as the plot unfolds, a little intrigue goes a long way. But your characters should be developed before you put your pen to paper.
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The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd Here is the blurb: When Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye, he turned and waved before getting on. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off – and no Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth
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Echo Burning (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child Echo Burning is a classic Reacher book: full of action and intrigue. There are so many twists and turns you don’t know who to believe. Child has created an outstanding character in Reacher: strong, independent, but not afraid to get dirty when necessary. Reacher looks rough on the
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Drood by Dan Simmons By using Wilkie Collins as the narrator of the novel Dan Simmons unfurls a carpet of emotions in which the reader can lascivious wallow. Like the inimitable Charles Dickens the author is more than able to to enwrap a skeleton of facts with bulging literary flesh. With the recurrent use of
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A Dark Matter by Peter Straub Though billed as something of a supernatural horror novel, A Dark Matter is much more of a psychological book. It’s a subdued novel in the fashion of Rashomon or Lost, using different character perspectives to gradually build a complete picture of events. But it’s also more than just a
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Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon The story itself is a rather interesting tale of murder and mystery. It has similarities to modern serial killer tales, but the setting makes it very fresh and interesting. McCammon does a good turn in describing the world of the American Colonies before the French and Indian war. People are
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Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins If it could be viewed as possible, Catching Fire raises the stakes of The Hunger Games and Suzanne Collins tells a story which is much more compelling than the one the suggested by the opening chapters of the novel. Unlike The Hunger Games,
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Fiction is defined as that genre of literary works that describes imaginary people and events. An avid book reader can find wide variety of fiction books in the market these days. Kids and grown ups like this genre of books, as they depict their hidden desires. Fiction form the bases of almost all the genres
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Fool: A Novel by Christopher Moore This book was pretty much exactly what I was expecting. It was uproariously funny and deliciously vulgar, and Pocket and his friends are likeable characters in their own right. Pocket is a great narrator. He’s a little full of himself, and he delivers some good one-liners, and, like all
Pythagorean Crimes by Tefcros Michaelides