The peeve that has been irritating me, is the current trend of so many authors to end
their books on cliffhangers.
(Also, if you're ending
a book on a cliffhanger, make sure you don't leave the characters — and your readers — hanging for too long.
Not exact matches
As you'd expect from a movie that's the first half of a
book, there isn't really an ending to the movie, and it doesn't naturally end
on much of a
cliffhanger either, so if you walk out of the theater feeling tepid, this will likely be one of the major reasons.
The title card «
Book One: Water» at the beginning and the
cliffhanger at the end suggest that Shyamalan and his backers plan
on «The Last Airbender» being the first film in a trilogy (mirroring the TV series» three seasons).
Kindle Scout gives readers sample chapters to read
on the website, so I wrote this
book with each of the first three chapters ending
on a
cliffhanger.
I ended my last Publishing Journey post about going
on submission to publishers
on an annoying
cliffhanger, in part because the post was getting a bit long, but also because I wanted this post, about selling the
book, to be the last one before the
book comes out in the US.
Pick your best work from the
book, and make sure it ends
on a
cliffhanger or stunner so people will want to read more!
The
book no longer ends
on a
cliffhanger, and it's now a full - length
book.
We also recommend you end the samples mentioned in items # 3 & 4
on a
cliffhanger and have a buy link to the
book (s) with a strong call to action (CTA): «CLICK HERE to find out what happens next!»
If possible, make the excerpt end
on a
cliffhanger, so readers are eager to buy the actual
book.
It was actually very helpful for this; I learned a lot about stuff like beginning with a bang, ending every chapter with a
cliffhanger, starting the
book at a crux, making the whole story take place over a few hour period, and so
on.