The best kind of book is the open-ended book where anything can happen. I hate a book which has one premise, and the writer sticks to that premise so tightly that the writer has no room to breathe — the reader has no room to breathe.
“The real bright spot at the moment is that I do believe publishing is in transition, the center is collapsing, you have a vibrant and increasingly literate cyberspace, and the inmates are taking over the ground floor of the asylum, with the asylum bosses trapped upstairs. If serious writers can get over their dreams of six-figure advances — and don’t get me wrong, we all have those dreams and there’s nothing wrong with them in and of themselves — they can write their future in publishing.”
Steve Erickson