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Originally Posted by tompe
Well slowly is not automatically bad. What you need in the beginning in some kind of hook that makes people continue to read. But a hook does can very well be something that start off slowly.
I am now reading the Hugo nominated novels and both Scalzi's Redshirts and Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon had a start that was better than the whole book. For me that is very common.
Of course I suspected that Scalzi's book would not hold up since it seemed to be a one joke book. But only going on the first pages it started very promising.
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So are you saying that those books didn't meet your standards? But aren't they traditionally published? Nominated for awards? I thought you implied that your method of choosing would effectively weed out "mediocre" books?
Shari