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3 Lessons Learned: Writing a Thriller Heroine

December 17, 2012 By Seeley James

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Can a Man Write a Female Leads? Why not? Ms. Rowling wrote a boy’s story. The Wall Street Journal ran an article just last week about women writing under male pseudonyms when writing male characters. Why couldn’t I write a female protagonist in a thriller? I love female leads in thrillers. I’d been working on […]

Filed Under: Great Writers On Writing, Reviews Tagged With: ebooks, heroine, hunger games, thriller

5 Things I Tried to Accomplish

December 11, 2012 By Seeley James

Along with thousands of other people in the last thirty days, I’ve released a thriller. It’s fun, exciting, and unputdownable or your money back*. But with all those competitors out there, the question I asked was, how do I make mine stand out? What niche is out there that would make mine unique? I hope […]

Filed Under: Pia Sabel Thrillers, Reviews Tagged With: debut writer, ebooks, hunger games, katniss, Katniss Everdeen, new releases, pia sabel

Review: The Girl Who Would Be King

November 27, 2012 By Seeley James

The Girl Who Would Be King — by Kelly Thompson $4.99 E This book is better than Hunger Games. A hell of a lot better. More exciting, more innovative, more fascinating. And yet Traditional Publishers won’t touch it. Why? Because it doesn’t fit their formula. It has no genre, no shelf at B&N, no section […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: authors, big 6, debut writer, great writing, heroine, katniss, Katniss Everdeen, new releases

Review: Beekeeper

November 14, 2012 By Seeley James

Beekeeper — by Juliet Moore $0.99 E / $6.99 PB A debut mystery written by a romance writer? Normally I would pass anything  remotely related to ‘romance’ (don’t scowl, I don’t read cookbooks or poetry either). But for some odd reason I was drawn to this book. Maybe I was secretly looking for a little […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: fiction, great writing, heroine, new releases, thriller

Review: Operator

November 1, 2012 By Seeley James

Operator — by David Vinjamuri $3.97E / $9.97 PB Some columnist quoted me in Forbes — obviously an indicator of an advanced intellect — so I read his bio and discovered that he’d written a thriller. Any writer smart enough to quote me deserves to be read. I bought it, I read it … and […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: debut writer, great writing, new releases, thriller

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