If you are looking for a writing niche for a sure fire best seller, then look no further than the suspense novel genre. Publishers are always looking for new suspense fiction books.
The great thing about suspense thrillers is that you can choose just about any topic and weave your plot around that. In fact, the best suspense books are often not the overdone detective and espionage books, but are usually about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events.
Think about some of the best selling suspense novels of the past decade or so. The protagonists have often been the most unlikely people. One of the best selling books of the past decade was about an academic who got caught up in a two thousand year old coverup of the marriage of Jesus. Do we need to reveal the title? We do not need to, because this novel became the most widely discussed book of the first years of the twenty-first century.
Subjects like reincarnation and life after death seem like unlikely topics for best selling suspense novels. Be that as it may, one of the most successful novelists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is a woman who writes convincingly about these subjects. She attracts a wide following because she creates believable characters and riveting plots.
One of the most suspenseful novels of the late twentieth century was written primarily about the chemical makeup of perfume! The writer of the book made the subject fascinating because it was the key to understanding his main character, who happened to be a psychotic killer. The action took place in medieval Europe.
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?
There are a couple of essential ingredients to any successful novel. The main character must be fleshed out so that the reader can get to know and understand him or her. The secondary character, the one who is opposed to the main character, must also be well developed. Also, the suspense must build from the first page to the last. Instead of writing a how to manual, why not write a suspense thriller instead. If nothing else, you will enjoy writing it more!
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