Dorothea L Gordon
See if you can craft a story line that makes sense to the head as well as the heart. There needs to be a buildup, a development that challenges the hero
or protagonist to go through some kind of hardship and come out as a new and empowered character. Look at successful authors like Jane Austen or Mary Higgins-Clark, Ken Follett, and so on. They are timeless because they speak to readers' hearts and souls. That way it doesn't matter if it's a social, mystery, or educating subject. Look at 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' which used this approach and sold over 500 million copies world wide.
Those are important criteria for me when I choose a book and then to either finish it or abort it half-way through. There
or protagonist to go through some kind of hardship and come out as a new and empowered character. Look at successful authors like Jane Austen or Mary Higgins-Clark, Ken Follett, and so on. They are timeless because they speak to readers' hearts and souls. That way it doesn't matter if it's a social, mystery, or educating subject. Look at 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' which used this approach and sold over 500 million copies world wide.
Those are important criteria for me when I choose a book and then to either finish it or abort it half-way through. There
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