Janet Benton, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/janetbenton/ Sun, 13 Aug 2017 11:49:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 What Makes Readers Open Their Minds and Bodies to a Story? https://booksbywomen.org/what-makes-readers-open-their-minds-and-bodies-to-a-story-by-janet-benton/ https://booksbywomen.org/what-makes-readers-open-their-minds-and-bodies-to-a-story-by-janet-benton/#comments Sun, 13 Aug 2017 05:46:22 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19825 A reader who believes in a story opens to it, mind and body. Novels have to work harder than films or television dramas to induce this openness; they can’t dismantle defenses with mood music and explosions. But they must induce openness, in order to get readers to climb aboard their carnival rides and stay until […]

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