How To Write Suspense Fiction Books
Are you a writer who is trying to break into a successful writing career? If so, you might want to consider writing suspense fiction books. These are some of the most popular books on the market and everybody loves them.
If you think that suspense books are all detective and international espionage books, then you should think again. You can write a suspense thriller about any topic under the sun. In fact, the best ones are usually about ordinary individuals who get caught up in a sequence of events they cannot escape from.
We do not even need to mention the title or author of the best selling suspense novel of the decade. Just a couple of details about the plot suffice to give the title and author away. This book was about a 2000 year old conspiracy that involved factual information that had been hidden from the public in the interests of the church. The story revolved around an academic who discovered that Jesus was in fact married. Have you guessed the title yet?
Or look at the books written by a woman who is seriously interested in reincarnation and after death experiences. These are normally considered subjects that only a narrow readership would be interested in, but her books are consistent bestsellers. That is because she writes suspense books about characters the average reader can relate to and she creates edge of the seat plots.
Yet another example is a book that was written by a man who was an expert in the chemistry of perfume, of all things. His incredibly suspenseful novel took place in medieval Europe. His lengthy explanations of the chemical composition of perfume were fascinating to readers because they helped to fill in the plot and became clues to understanding and even sympathizing with the main character in the book.
Surely these examples demonstrate that successful books can be written that revolve around just about any topic there is. Plumbing, for instance, does not sound like the basis for suspense fiction, but what if the plumber happened to overhear a conversation while he was fixing a pipe. Wanting to learn more, he fixed the pipes in such a way that the owner would have to call him again. What do you do or know about that you could be the beginning of a bestselling novel?
In order to make your story believable, you just need to create a believable main character that readers can sympathize with. This character needs a secondary character with a well defined personality that opposes the protagonist. Add to that a plot that becomes more suspenseful with each turn of the page and you have the ingredients for great suspense fiction books. Does that not sound more interesting than writing a how to manual?