What makes an awesome fiction novel awesome? Well, as how one of my recent new favorite authors, history-geek and action-thriller-mystery writer Matthew Reilly puts it, it's research.
Sounds boring! Even I get eye crusts when I open a historical book about how Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Antarctica...or something...(I have my facts wrong, right? Right.)
Well, to me, this is how I imagine him doing an awesome novel:
Matthew: "oh Honey? Are we still going to Hawaii for our Honeymoon? I was kinda thinking we should go to Egypt, see some dead mummies, try to pretend we're Anthropologists as we decipher Hieroglyphs, get lost in the Tomb of Tutankhamen and feel like we're in an Indiana Jones movie and survive deathly traps?"
(No reply)
Matthew: "Honey?"
(Matthew walks to the hallway and into another room, which is supposed to be the room for their baby. but when he sees a note that says, 'Went to Egypt to see dead mummies. Be back in a jiff if I survive a death trap in one of the tombs of Hatschepsut. Love you!' Matthew puts on a sour look.)
Matthew: "Oh, great..."
Note: The above stated story of how Matthew Reilly make his books, it is just a parody. really, matthew Reilly's books are awesome.
See my next post so I can prove it, or search it in Wiki or Google.
That's it for now. Peace out!
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Matthew's wife: "Next stop: the lost city of Atlantis!"
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