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A Pox on ... me?

10/3/2012

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Got my all-time favorite email this morning. My goal is to write books that are, to use a "word" I sometimes see in reviews, unputdownable.

Toward the end of my books, I try to keep ratcheting up the tension, not giving the reader a place to jump off, where they can assume the protagonist will be okay until the next day. It's a fine line to walk. A writer can't just throw in cliffhanger after cliffhanger, because it will wear the reader down. Mix in a few teases with the cliffhangers, though, and you just might keep the reader going all night.

Here's the email:

"A pox on you, DE Johnson!  Another school night up until 1:30am -- had to finish Det Breakdown -- and missed the Y this morning.  If the Mr. mentions something about fat and lazy at least I can say I am well-read. OK, so now I am destitute.  When will there be another?  I want them to get married and somehow have children."

If my skin starts breaking out, I'll be worried. Otherwise I'll just enjoy the thought of another exhausted reader ...

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