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Bookshots are novellas which are nothing new.
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My impression of Kindle worlds is "author approved fan-fiction", books set in another author's world/setting.
Bookshots seems more like novellas or even novelettes within the author's own setting. The James Patterson name is just to get people to buy them without reading the blurb. "Ooohhh...look, new James Patterson..." |
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Novella length makes perfect sense in the e-book market, less sense in the tradpub market. The Maigret series were seldom over 40,0000 words or so, and for the UK book market Penguin bundled two at a time to give a reasonable sized book for the money.
As a seem to recall, Simenon's Maigrets were originally marketed in cheap magazine format, although I've never seen an original French Maigret edition. Another famous novella: Bonjour Tristesse, 29,000 words by my count. Bet you didn't realise it was that short. It doesn't read short, and I didn't realise myself it until I did a quick word count. Patterson and the many others now in what might be called "group writing practices" are not new. Think of Dumas, who didn't write The Count of Monte Christo himself (or indeed any of his novels) but nevertheless closely controlled every bit of them. The man who actually did the quill-work later tried writing his own novels, which sank without trace. |
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Anyone reading any of the bookshots titles? I've read everyone single one so far and while the quality does vary I've enjoyed each title.
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I've read only one so far. I've read The Trial because I was up-to-date with the Women's Murder Club series. It was very odd because of all the even shorter chapters. The story was not bad. But this felt like a short story.
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Could it be that it felt like a short story, because Bookshots are short? Or are they supposed to feel like abridged or compressed full size novels?
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Ever read something by Dan Brown, such as the Angels and Demons, or The Da Vinci code? Those books have 528 and 478 pages in my custom counting, and they have 137 and 105 chapters. That is 3.85 and 4.55 pages per chapter. A chapter only takes a few minutes to read.
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Put a few of those together in a bundle, mix big name authors with up-and-comers and it could be the e-birth of the pulp.
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