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Originally Posted by theducks
A good story telling drags me in :
Ilona Andrews
Sharon Lee
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A lot of beginning indie book authors seem to take on the role of play-by-play Announcer, with the reader as a spectator.
IMHO First person story telling does not automatically equal Announcer mode
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I like Ilona Andrews (actually a husband and wife team, or perhaps I should say wife and husband, given they mostly write romance based fantasy from the woman's pov).
Corriea is a good example of an author who uses first person while pulling in the reader.
I think a lot of authors get too focused on rushing into the "meaty" part of the story. Sometimes I read a book where I get the impression that the author had created a book outline, wrote the major scenes and then added a few pages in between the major scenes to try to link the scenes together. While those scenes are well written, the book as a whole just doesn't hold my interest.