THE CAREER NOVELIST
Most important, these writers' fiction is original. They probably
work in an already crowded genre, but they stand out because
nobody else writes quite like them. On top of that, their novels have
strong narrative hooks, great characters, and engrossing complica-
tions. The craft of these writers always improves—as do their sales.
In the nineties only the fittest survive. Does that sound frighten-
ing? It shouldn't. After all, the fittest will only be doing what truly
successful novelists have been doing all along: telling first-class
stories.