Clarence Reed asked Dean Koontz:

If I have a great book idea but no writing skill, how do I find a good writer looking for a great book idea?

Dean Koontz Most likely, you can’t. You’re more likely to connect with a fraud who will charge you to write a bad book. Generally speaking, a really good writer can only write with passion when the premise for the novel arises in his or her own head. Believe it or not, ideas are the easy part.

I was once approached by two successful businessmen who wanted me to write the first book in “a new genre” they invented, which they were sure would be huge. Since new genres aren’t invented every day, or even every century, I was curious as to what it might be. They said, “It’s Tom Clancy without all the military stuff.” That was it, their idea not just for a novel but for an entire genre. Take all the military stuff out of a Clancy novel, and what you have is a book of blank pages!

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