I think I’d rather have people find a cure for cancer, or figure out if Mars will be inhabitable one day for our species … but some are spending considerable effort, and time, to produce books like The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers.
This book appeared six months ago and I’m just getting to it: I’ve been spending some summer free time reading issues of the TLS that have been piling up since January. (It’s the literary equivalent of binge-watching shows on Netflix, I guess.)
Daisy Hilyard’s TLS review of this code book – along with a few other books about the craft of writing – caused me to draw a few conclusions:
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Ok wait, yes, she was a powerful little Italian – rest in peace, dear Sis – but I don’t mean that she actually lifted up the man from Lyme Regis and tossed him like a sack of potatoes. It was his book, The Collector, that took flight in my sister’s family room and smacked against the wall.
