Calling Vicki, Suspense Needs a Bad Guy

 When writing a suspense novel you must realize that your book will only be as good as your villain is bad. The stronger the villain the stronger the story will end up being. You love your hero and you want them to be successful. This love sometimes leads to us watering down the forces that will rage against him or in the case of my novel Calling Vicki her. I love my character Victoria Winters, but I do not fully understand her. Part of the way in which I learn about her is to see how she operates during times of crisis. 

 I needed to provide both internal and external demons to push her to and sometimes beyond her limits. This is done expertly in the novel Silence of the Lambs. Agent Starling grows and reveals things about herself through conflict with Dr. Lecter and with her own past.


 

The strange thing that may happen as you do this is that you may grow to like your villains as much as your heroes. In my suspense novel Calling Vicki I never grew to like Carlos the lead villain in my novel. He is a vicious evil man who I understood in the end, but would not want to work with again. While two of the characters that aid him in his quest for revenge, a man who calls himself Riddle and his woman Jackie, I enjoyed dealing with so much that they have earned a novel of their own. I want to know their human story and the only way to learn that story is to write it down.


 

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Calling Vicki, Writing The Page Turner

Calling Vicki, Writing The Page Turner

 The secrets to writing what is called a page turner is not that many. 

 The first thing that you need to do is learn who to write reasonably well. You will do this by first reading a lot. You learn how to form proper sentences by seeing how others have done it. Secondly you will write a great deal. Write everyday. 

Look at it as if it was any other exercise. You are building your writing muscles rather than arm or leg muscles. Do not worry about how good or bad it is as long as you are writing every single day. Now let’s get to the page turner. Look at the most popular writers that write what are referred to as page turners and they all have one thing in common. They all write short and sweet chapter. From Dean Koontz to James Patterson they keep it short. Under eight pages would be a start. Most of the chapters in my novel calling Vicki are under six pages long. That length is natural to me. I populate my novel with characters who have strong points of view and I live to see the story move along through their eyes.


   

 I believe that this way of writing will only grow in popularity over time due to the fact that we live in the information age. With texting and twitter we are growing accustom to getting information in short quick burst. Consider this when writing and or rewriting your novel. 


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Free Book Week, Calling Vicki

                Free Book Week, Calling Vicki

    To promote my suspense novel Calling Vicki as we approach the holiday season I have decided to offer my novel for one week absolute free at a few of the major ebook distributors.

    If you would like to take advantage of this offer all you have to do is to click here to visit Smashwords. It will available soon at Sony,itunes and Scribd.





    Free book giveaways were invented by authors as a way of getting the book reading public to be the best advertising for their books. Many of those who read the book and like it are happy to give it a quick positive review ad a few reviews can super charge the sales of a book.  I believe that the more people read my book the more popular it will become and getting people interested in it as the holidays approach is going to be very important to me. I have the out line for book two and the only two things holding me up from writing it is the book that I am in the middle of at the moment and the need to get a little more feed back. I need to know what readers like, hate and love about the first book so I can improve upon those points.

    Writing a novel is hard work and sometime that work is made easier by the readers. With the giveaway of my first published novel over the next few days  

I would love to get to know some of these readers. Perhaps even you.     Have a nice day and again please take the time to check out my book Calling Vicki.