How to write a bestseller

THAT is what I want to find out when I fly this Friday to New York City. I was lucky to be chosen as a writing fellow for six weeks at the MacDowell Arts Residency in New Hampshire. I will be writing my second novel, and it's not going to be as literary as Riverrun, my first novel that was published by Penguin Books in 2020.

My guide for this journey is The Bestseller Code, a book by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers. Subtitled "Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel," it talks about the algorithm that could predict which manuscripts would become bestsellers.