Good post. How to hook people on reading is of course THE challenge right now for anyone in the literary game. The main gateway for me was the comic book-- Spiderman and Batman primarily, maybe because I sensed even as a child or young teen they were complex characters. Both also had an array of fascinating bad guys to deal with.
(Perhaps all that's needed to rescue the story and novel are more interesting protagonists-- with more striking antagonists to play off of?)
Good post. How to hook people on reading is of course THE challenge right now for anyone in the literary game. The main gateway for me was the comic book-- Spiderman and Batman primarily, maybe because I sensed even as a child or young teen they were complex characters. Both also had an array of fascinating bad guys to deal with.
(Perhaps all that's needed to rescue the story and novel are more interesting protagonists-- with more striking antagonists to play off of?)