Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the
bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely
have noticed a certain shift: After writing two short-story collections and a
literary novel, he delivered the werewolf thriller Red Moon and the
postapocalyptic epic The Dead Lands. Now, in his first book of nonfiction, Percy
challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are somehow mutually
exclusive. The title essay is an ode to the kinds of books that make many
readers fall in love with fiction: science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, horror,
from J.R.R. Tolkien to