Much is made about the first lines of books, but we get more pleasure out of last lines because, if they are good, they evoke the whole experience of reading the book. Good last lines give us a warm feeling like we have been somewhere, changed in the process of going or coming, and arrived […]

Lately we’ve been reading a lot of conversations in clients’ books that seem to be floating in space. These disembodied voices leave us with an odd feeling like we have landed in the midst of some fantasy novel in which the characters simply don’t have bodies, but float around indistinguishably in space as pure consciousness […]