On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Mark Tiller wrote: > Did anybody else notice that Issola was written with a certain nod > towards television. One of the things struck me was the habit SKZB had > in the book of putting a dramatic line or paragraph right at the end of > a chapter as a TV Show would just before an ad break. > > The one that particularly springs to mind is 'Paitence my ass; I'm > going > to go out an kill something' at the end of chapter 8. I didn't really pick that up but that kind of style is sometimes good for grabbing the reader and driving the book forward. I call those "chapter cliff hangers"; if you want to know what happens, read on!