“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.” IfsThinkingHardStoriesUseOpportunitySocialDealsTechnologyMediaSocial MediaTraditionalPublishersNew TechnologyProactive Author:Ian Rankin
“The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in my books. I usually write a secondary love story, with maybe nontraditional characters. Sometimes I write older characters. I'm interested in female friendships, and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.” ThinkingWritingBookSometimesCharacterStoriesRomanceHeroFemaleLove StoryTraditionalHeroinesFemale FriendshipFamily RelationshipFriendship And Family Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.” StoriesLiteraturePrinciplesSunHabitConsciousConceptsTraditionStructureMythologyTraditionalMatureMetaphoricSun God Author:Northrop Frye
“The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect Kristiana Kahakauwila's intimate but expansive vision of a Hawai'i forged from the collisions of past and present, here and there. Her protagonists are as richly distinctive as the pidgin they speak, and yet each struggles profoundly with identity-that negotiation between ourselves and the world, which is at once Hawaiian, American, universally and compellingly human.” WorldHumansStoriesPastSpeakPleasureVisionStruggleIdentityInventionTraditionalNarrativeIntimateParadiseFormalNegotiationHere And ThereDistinctiveProtagonistsPast And PresentCollisionForgedHawaiians Author:Peter Ho Davies
“In my work, and in my psyche, there's some very sentimental, traditional, conventional side that's always in argument with a more radical, sarcastic side. Some of my stories are really sentimental, but they're layered over with weird, satirical stuff.” StoriesStuffSidesArgumentTraditionalRadicalSarcasticConventionalSentimentalSatirical Author:George Saunders