Articles by Rose

Marshal Zeringue runs an interesting blog where he asks authors to comment on page 69 of their book - and how it relates to the rest of the story.

Rose applied the Page 69 Test to The Mistaken Wife.

Excerpt:

I do the same kind of research for fiction and non-fiction, although I use that research in a different way. Non-fiction and fiction have the same basic objective – to convince the reader of an argument. The non-fiction argument is the thesis, and the fiction argument is the theme. The difference is that the non-fiction thesis is obvious whereas hopefully the theme in a work of fiction is not – you work it out as you go along...