7 FIGURE FICTION

She tells you straight out what she will deliver, and boy does she deliver on her promises. I know that I will revisit this book time and again because it puts things in a very understandable way. She explains why books hit and flop.

So here’s the thing with this book: she keeps saying she’s not talking about tropes but she’s talking about tropes. She says Universal Fantasies are the why tropes works, but she’s still talking about tropes! She writes very trendy tropes on Amazon UK and she’s prolific—-that’s the big secret of her success. If you can’t write trendy tropes or prolifically? Too bad. What a waste of time and money! I want my money back and the couple hours it took to read this thing! Gah!

When several authors I trust mentioned this book after hearing the author talk, my curiosity was piqued. But after trudging through chapter after chapter of “selling” universal fantasies with very little in the way of actual useful or actionable information, I confess myself disappointed. There’s nothing new here that I haven’t seen presented—albeit using different terms—in at least a dozen other craft or marketing books. Maybe a new writer might find something useful here, but authors with a few books written and/or some success in publishing who’ve read a craft book or three are likely to already be familiar with this concept.