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Lexi Revellian · 08-09-2010, 05:28 PM

If a writer can't snag the reader in the first half of the book, he/she needs to try again.

Readers are to be trusted, long term at any rate; Jane Austen and Dickens are still read, Walter Scott and Marie Corelli, huge in their day, are not.

08-09-2010, 05:28 PM	#100
Lexi Revellian Groupie Posts: 172 Karma: 200001 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: London Device: Kindle keyboard	If a writer can't snag the reader in the first half of the book, he/she needs to try again. Readers are to be trusted, long term at any rate; Jane Austen and Dickens are still read, Walter Scott and Marie Corelli, huge in their day, are not.