Simon Trewin

“What I really want to read is a proper, old-fashioned blockbuster like they used to do. You know?” a friend said to me a couple of years ago. And I did know. I knew exactly the sort of book she was talking about. That conversation planted the seed of the idea which became my first novel, Luxury, which is just that – an old-fashioned blockbuster, brought bang up to date.

When I started writing Luxury, I did a lot of thinking about what makes a novel a blockbuster, as opposed to a saga, or chick lit. While the traditional definition of a blockbuster is simply a mega-seller, like their cinematic counterparts, to call a book a blockbuster implies something more than simply selling in droves – although of course one always hopes they will do that as well…..

So says Jessica Ruston, author of the sparklingly good LUXURY (out now from Headline) who reveals the vital ingredients for a blockbusting novel in The Guardian. Click here to reveal all.