Mystery Novel vs. Mystery BookShot
In my Saturday entry I mentioned that James Patterson was going to appear on the CBS News Sunday Morning show. (Although James Patterson doesn’t write Cozy Mysteries, he does write some mystery series that I know a lot of us read.) I hope some of you were able to watch that segment. I was delighted to hear James Patterson talk about his new idea for books: BookShots.
If you didn’t see the segment, you may be asking: What’s a BookShot? Well, they’re books that are 150 (+/-) pages long that cost less than $5.00. Yep, that’s right! Less than $5.00 for both the Kindle format AND the paperback editions! The BookShots official website touts these as “ALL THRILLER. NO FILLER.” (Don’t worry though >>> he’ll continue to release his regular length mysteries, too!)
(I currently have sixteen of his BookShots posted on the Soon to be Released page of my site, and I see that he will also be releasing James Patterson’s BookShot Flames which will be 150 page romance novels by other authors. He’ll also have a line of non fiction BookShots such as his September release: Clinton vs. Trump: In Their Own Words.)
With this in mind, I am posing this question: Would you like to see some of your favorite Cozy Mystery authors adopt the BookShots idea? Do you think you’d be interested in reading your Cozy Mysteries even if they were only half as long, (as well as a lot cheaper)? Obviously, if the author changed her/his books from 300 pages to 150 pages (or equivalent word count quota), there would have to be less of something such as descriptive passages or perhaps subplots. >>> Would you miss those?
P.S. These are not novella length novels. Usually you’re lucky if a novella is 90 pages long!
Back in San Antonio…
I wanted to write a quick note to say that I’m back home. My husband and I had a great time visiting our daughter and our old stomping grounds. We were very lucky with the weather on the days we were visiting, however, both driving out and coming home, there sure was a whole lot of rain!
When I got home I went out to see how my Geraniums were doing and was surprised to see that a pair of Benwick’s Wrens have nested in one of my hanging pots. How neat is that? I bought a Wren birdhouse for their future home, but for now the pot will have to do. I guess it’s a good thing that there is a drain hole in the bottom of the pot >>> since we have had an extraordinary amount of rain down here.
Oh, and one more thing, before I forget. James Patterson (I know he’s not a Cozy author, however, he’s a really good mystery author) will have a segment on tomorrow morning’s CBS News Sunday Morning. Since I already DVR that particular show every week, I won’t have to go set my machine, however, some of you may enjoy that segment.
Memorial Day: A Day of Thanks and Rememberance
We are here in beautiful Washington, D.C. visiting our daughter, and what a time to be in our nation’s capital! Each time we have driven by the Arlington Cemetery, we are reminded of the sacrifices many men and women have made for us. It is truly humbling.
