With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.
All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes.
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.