How to Write a Damn Good Thriller: A Step-By-Step Guide for Novelists and Screenwriters, (Hardcover)

from librarianbryan

Picked this up on a whim and it became my fall asleep book for many months. I think I really wanted to know what made people like to read thrillers.Mr. Frey's advice isn't anything you won't find anywhere else, but at least he has the common decency to not tell people to cut description ala Elmor...

from jen.e.moore

Based on the excerpts, I don't think I'd like Frey's fiction very much. But that's okay, because his writing books are still amazing. He packs a lot of good information into a small space, doesn't get repetitive, and has that hardass "this is hard but do it anyway" attitude that I find hugely mot...

from JanettLeeWawrzyniak

Presenting the map for thriller novel writing is given in examples of sequence. The main ingredient of a thriller is pulse-pounding suspense. The quality of fiction that makes the reader want to turn the pages to see what's going to happen next, is suspense. In a thriller the hero has a mission t...