{"id":3179,"date":"2024-06-06T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2024-06-06T16:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:35:03","slug":"review-write-a-bestselling-thriller-by-matthew-branton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-write-a-bestselling-thriller-by-matthew-branton\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Write a Bestselling Thriller, by Matthew Branton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a good, short introduction to the subject for anyone thinking about writing a thriller.  While much of the text is formulaic (it&#8217;s part of the &#8220;Teach Yourself&#8221; series, so there are a lot of sidebars and summaries), some parts of the book do shine and can be very useful.  Matthew Branton does a forensic examination of one highly successful writer&#8217;s bestseller (James Patterson&#8217;s <em>Roses are Red<\/em>)&#8211; but you shouldn&#8217;t read this section if you haven&#8217;t read Patterson&#8217;s book, as it&#8217;s full of spoilers.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good, short introduction to the subject for anyone thinking about writing a thriller. While much of the text is formulaic (it&#8217;s part of the &#8220;Teach Yourself&#8221; series, so there are a lot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}