Craft Book Review: 7 Figure Fiction

by | Oct 9, 2022

Okay, this was an interesting change of pace, and a nice fresh voice. When this book published, it had a lot of mentions in author communities, and I can see why. I understand picking a catchy title, but it should really be called “Using Universal Fantasy to make any book better.”

The author’s entire premise is that there is a things called Universal Fantasies that are tropes that are particularly strong button pushers, and we shouldn’t shy away from them, even if they can be a little embarrassing, because readers love them. Nothing new there, but what I really took note of is that you should be identifying these fantasies in your book, and making sure you use them in your marketing materials, because readers have a visceral reaction to them. It’s way better to focus on these aspects in your book description than simply a catchy description of the plot.

While this book is probably most useful for romance writers, I think it has solid information for anyone.

You may also like…

Finalizing my new book

Finalizing my new book

Hello, it's fall in New England, or will be soon. For the last twenty years September has been part of summer - just...

Working on the Glossary

Working on the Glossary

The point of this website is to help the first time author. There is so much white noise out there in the indie...

0 Comments

Leave a Reply