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This is an incredibly important question if you wish to write a book . If you write a book you want people to read it. You want someone to read it and recommend it to another person who does the same. You want to read reviews and see your work as it climbs up the sellers list from your publisher.

In order for all this to happen, your book needs to be a good read . There are tons of experts out there who you have never heard of who will gladly sell you their formula for creating bestsellers. Now don’t get me wrong. Formula writing is quite successful. Only I wouldn’t take the advice from someone who I have never heard of. I would study those who successfully created books based on formulas they successfully used.

What do I mean by formula writing ? It is a simple method. You plot out a book something like this:

Then you create the characters and fill in the blanks with the actual writing. Formula writing. Several publishers have found great success with it. Most publishers love to repeat what worked for them so they try to get everyone to write inside their formula because it worked.

One writer I adored when I was growing up was Louis L’Amour . He wrote westerns. Simple stories that followed the same story line each and every time. The names changed but the story didn’t. Yet, I read them all even though I knew exactly what was going to happen next.

This is where the good read part kicks in. Are you writing a book right now? Do you want it to be successful ? This is another important question. See, many successful books ( best sellers ) aren’t necessarily good reads. I have read a great deal of them who are blah as far as the story goes. Success in writing a book doesn’t necessarily equate to having a good book to read. Success is measured by sales which often is the result of long, hard hours of marketing. People buy books all the time they don’t read or only read a partial amount.

Good reads however will sell themselves over time. Once one person reads it then another will from their recommendations. People who read love to share. The Outlander Series is a good example of this. The stories are great reads. You don’t want to put them down and once you come to the end of the story; you want more. There is no better testament to a writer than this.

I still haven’t told you how to write a good read, have I? The answer to that question is harder than you think. It requires you to put yourself out there . To show people your work. Get feedback. Lots and lots of feedback and then use the feedback. You must put your ego to the side. Bury it if you need to. Listen to every critic. Read your book through the eyes of another. Read it out loud. Record the story as you read it out loud. Listen to it. Pick it apart then ask others to do the same. Then find new people to read portions of it until you have crafted a book your own critics like.

Or not. Anne Rice nor J.K. Rowling did this. They simply wrote their stories and let the world have them. Thank God for that. I love both of their writings. In the end knowing if you have a book which is a good read comes down to whether or not those who read it can put it down. That is my criteria for a good read. If someone can put it down with ease, then it is not a good read. People must want to read the next sentence, the next chapter, the next book. If they don’t then you haven’t crafted a good read. Period.

If that’s the case, then do something about it.

I’m Ross, The Editor at The Pyrateheart Press and I’m out.