By: Kevin A. Lewis

Kevin A. Lewis — Tue, 31 May 2016 18:25:24 +0000

I think the takeaway here is that buzz isn’t controlled from the marketing end, although it can help; it’s a writer’s ability, conscious or accidental, to wavelength with the readers desire for entertainment and fly from there. And THEY’RE the ones whose Facebook posts matter. As you said, it’s easy to get into a tech dissection (sometimes I do it too) which sidetracks the question of whether a particular work is fun to read. That’s why I keep a collection of Agatha Christies and old-school pulp lit like Conan the Barbarian around for slow brain periods; stuff that is so ridiculous it shouldn’t work but for some mysterious reason is fun to read. (Although from my deck chair, Agatha Christie’s THE BIG FOUR is by a far shot the silliest mystery ever written-makes Dennis Wheatley’s THE SATANIST look downright thoughtful) It’s not an exact science, by any means…

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