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British suspense writers are mounting an organized challenge against the factory-farmed thrillers of American corporations like James Patterson, John Grisham, and Tom Clancy. They even strive for some sort of “literary value”… Huh. What’s next, foreign and female characters developed outside descriptions of their brown and round bits?
“We’re trying to say ‘why would you want to read fairly cynical, ghost-written books which are being pumped out by publishers when there are a lot of good new British writers you could be reading?’” explained Lynn. “We feel the genre has been quite neglected in the last seven to eight years … There haven’t been any new writers coming through. It might be because there aren’t any very good writers, or maybe it’s because publishers and booksellers have been neglecting it – they’ve become obsessed with the big names, and because they’ve got a new James Patterson or John Grisham four to five times a year to put at the front of the bookshop, it crowds out all the new British authors who are coming through.”
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April 20th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
As an up and coming Thriller writer myself…I’ll have to say, Yeah! What Lynn said!
And I’m not even British!
Where’s the new Forsythe….uh…in addition to me that is…
April 20th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I’m not British or a thriller writer, but i still say, yeah.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:40 pm
MC5 vs MIA would be more interesting
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Hey, I just realized that the title says M5 vs CIA, but if we’re talking British thrillers shouldn’t it oughta be MI-5? Unless of course UK has decided to use the fairly infamous group of thugs in the West Country who go by the name M5 for clandestine operations. The M5 gang’s Modus Operandi is to rob grandma’s & grandpa’s using children as bait.
…of course the way UK law enforcement goes in some folks eyes, this may be the case.