Simply put, stakes are the negative consequences of failure. If your protagonist fails, bad things will happen. Unlike an intriguing hook or compelling protagonist, stakes put readers under tension.
Week three, and our final fiction cover poll; with ten more beautiful book covers!
Time for round two of the 2017 KWL Best Cover contest! This week, we’re asking you to vote for your favourite mystery/suspense cover. The KWL team…
Episode 86 features an interview with international bestselling author Catherine Coulter, about one of her most recent titles, Insidious. Catherine Coulter is the author of 75…
Instead of the regular interview with an author or industry person, episode 75 of the KWL Podcast features Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre pausing to…
Episode 61 features an interview with Peter James, an international best-selling British writer of crime fiction, which took place at Kobo’s HQ in June 2016 in…
Mark Lefebvre, Director of Kobo Writing Life, interviews author, podcaster, film-maker, photographer and audio-book producer, J. Daniel Sawyer. In the interview, Mark and Daniel discuss: Dan’s…
By Libby Fischer Hellmann My latest thriller, Jump Cut, is the fifth Ellie Foreman mystery, and it’s been ten years since the fourth one came out.…
There’s never been more opportunities for writers and storytellers than ever in the history of publishing, and Episode 052 of the Kobo Writing Life Podcast demonstrates…
Kobo recently held a special event in downtown Toronto for some of its best customers, avid readers and fans of Michael Connelly. Special guests had a…
When did you first discover a love of writing? Is there a particular book that made you want to become a writer? I’ve always loved to…
Mark Lefebvre, Kobo Writing Life Director, in conversation with Dean Wesley Smith, a USA Today Bestselling author of books in multiple genres including Science-Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers and…
In the fall of 2014, Louise Penny visited Kobo’s home office in Toronto and was interviewed by editor and book enthusiast Jennifer Knoch for a…
Two murder cases I covered for the Toronto Star quite early in my career were the inspiration for the plot of The Dead Times, my new…
This podcast includes the full and unabridged audio of the Kobo in Conversation interview with Kathy Reichs conducted by Bob Ramsay and hosted by Kobo’s Senior Director of…
What makes for a great mystery novel is something of a mystery to us. So we turned to one of the more successful writers in the…