Comments on: How to create a massive market for your novel using hooks http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/create-a-massive-market-for-your-novel-using-hooks/ writing, publishing, ideas and inspiration - from those nice people at www.ideas4writers.co.uk Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:52:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dave Haslett http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/create-a-massive-market-for-your-novel-using-hooks/#comment-1879 Dave Haslett Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:39:01 +0000 http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-1879 Terry: latch on to the public mood and write the book everyone wants to read. Take The Da Vinci Code - an average story, not brilliantly written, but a bestseller all over the world because it got the mood right. Terry: latch on to the public mood and write the book everyone wants to read. Take The Da Vinci Code – an average story, not brilliantly written, but a bestseller all over the world because it got the mood right.

]]> By: Terry Finley http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/create-a-massive-market-for-your-novel-using-hooks/#comment-1878 Terry Finley Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:08:54 +0000 http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-1878 Is there any secret or guarantee when one begins to write a novel? Is there any secret or guarantee when
one begins to write a novel?

]]> By: geoffnelder http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/create-a-massive-market-for-your-novel-using-hooks/#comment-1876 geoffnelder Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:50:25 +0000 http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-1876 Interesting newsletter - again - Dave, congrats. I am a little bothered about us needing to plan ahead for selling hooks at the planning stage of a novel. I fear it might stunt creativity, but no doubt you'd say that on the contrary it adds aspects of the plot to made creativity more ingenuous and ingenious. After I'd written my thriller, Escaping Reality, I examined the plot with a new view for its promo and realized I could use the tourist industry in Cumbria, which is why it is for sale in the Keswick and Patterdale hotels - not much movement though. A local reporter picked up the underground crime element in Maryport and so the only bookshop there has my Escaping Reality in its front window - sold six in 4 years - they don't read in Maryport. There's a motorbike journey in the book so I placed an advert in a motorbike magazine. I believe that generate a few sales but I also won a competition the mag ran where advertisers were auto entered! hah. I better stop before this turns into another article. Geoff Interesting newsletter – again – Dave, congrats. I am a little bothered about us needing to plan ahead for selling hooks at the planning stage of a novel. I fear it might stunt creativity, but no doubt you’d say that on the contrary it adds aspects of the plot to made creativity more ingenuous and ingenious. After I’d written my thriller, Escaping Reality, I examined the plot with a new view for its promo and realized I could use the tourist industry in Cumbria, which is why it is for sale in the Keswick and Patterdale hotels – not much movement though. A local reporter picked up the underground crime element in Maryport and so the only bookshop there has my Escaping Reality in its front window – sold six in 4 years – they don’t read in Maryport. There’s a motorbike journey in the book so I placed an advert in a motorbike magazine. I believe that generate a few sales but I also won a competition the mag ran where advertisers were auto entered! hah. I better stop before this turns into another article.

Geoff

]]> By: Eleanor http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/create-a-massive-market-for-your-novel-using-hooks/#comment-1875 Eleanor Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:58:24 +0000 http://ideas4writers.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-1875 Great ideas there, Dave. Looking forward to your new book as we are just going to publish Scordril in the summer. Timely! Great ideas there, Dave. Looking forward to your new book as we are just going to publish Scordril in the summer. Timely!

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