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Remember Barry Eisler; For Readers






Remember Barry Eisler?







We did a SHALLA CHATS with him over at SHALLA Magazine several months ago.








Well, now he's got a new book!


Hi all,






Just wanted to let you know that Fault Line, my first standalone thriller, hits stores today.

I'll be on the road for the rest of the month promoting it, so if you find yourself in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Los Angeles (Pasadena, Thousand Oaks, LA), San Diego, Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area (Palo Alto and San Mateo), Houston, Indianapolis (Carmel), Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Washington DC (Bethesda and Baileys Crossroads), or New York City, stop by and say hello!

--Barry Eisler










Insider’s Look at Publishing the Rain Series

SHALLA CHATS with NY Times Best Selling author,
BarryEisler

















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Mystery Writing: Keep Your Audience Intoxicated




by Patrick Davis





A mystery, a compelling love story, a darkened enigma, and fragments of the past are elements of secrets. Secrets are powerful. Gossip is devious. A dark secret whispered through gossiping lips unleashes its intoxicating spell that will, for the moment, seize the hearers. Gossip, as powerful as it is, buys the attention of those listening. But if you harness the intoxicating power of secrets that reside within the pages of a captivating story, you have the potential of buying yourself the attention of the vast, book-reading population.




Blending your secret in with the story's setting





If you are thinking of writing of mystery novel but are not sure how, this is what you may want to consider. Within the opening pages of your novel, introduce your readers to a captivating secret. Allow this "hidden incident" be a fragment of a love story from another era. This will quickly lure your audience to read more. Or your secret may be an old discarded tool, but later discovered that it was a murder weapon. Or perhaps, there's something recorded within the pages of a diary containing a secret about someone else. Or suppose the diary belonged to a young lady during the Victorian era who knew of a secret romance that was forbidden. Perhaps this secret romance involved someone who was dear to her. And perhaps the author of the diary had no strength to destroy her personal journal; and it was too painful for her to keep it. So she entombed it within a secret hold residing in her lavished home with hopes that no one would ever find it.





You can read the rest of this article here: http://www.fictionfactor.com/guests/mysterywriting.html

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