Carlos Ramet is the executive assistant to the president/executive director of public affairs and professor of English and creative writing at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan. He is the author of fifteen published short stories and numerous scholarly articles on the craft of fiction, genre writers and Ken Follett as contemporary novelist. He lives in Saginaw.

“this is one of the best books I’ve ever read on the career and methods of a popular novelist”—Mystery Scene; “Ramet provides us with another way to inspect the value of Follett’s body of work and to understand the man, but also gives us a view of how books are written and how the real world shapes a writer and his fiction in general. Ramet succeeds in crafting a biography of Follett in which the writing process is examined as well via the life of a literary success story”—Popular Culture Review.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsviiiPrefaceChronologyIntroduction1. Following a Successful Formula: Whiteout as Case Study2. The Scribbler’s Trade: A Midnight Train to Somewhere3. “A Most Remarkable Writer”: The Symon Myles Mysteries and the ­Non-Series Hero4. A Foray into Film: What Those Old Scripts Can Tell Us5. A Fine Kettle of Fish: Beyond First Success6. A Case—or Two—in Point: The Struggle for Authorial Independence7. On Wings of Eagles: Narrative Negotiation of “True Story” Fiction8. Night Over Water: A Flight of Fancy9. A Political Dimension: Entering the FrayConclusionFilmographyChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Carlos Ramet is the executive assistant to the president/executive director of public affairs and professor of English and creative writing at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan. He is the author of fifteen published short stories and numerous scholarly articles on the craft of fiction, genre writers and Ken Follett as contemporary novelist. He lives in Saginaw.

“this is one of the best books I’ve ever read on the career and methods of a popular novelist”—Mystery Scene; “Ramet provides us with another way to inspect the value of Follett’s body of work and to understand the man, but also gives us a view of how books are written and how the real world shapes a writer and his fiction in general. Ramet succeeds in crafting a biography of Follett in which the writing process is examined as well via the life of a literary success story”—Popular Culture Review.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsviiiPrefaceChronologyIntroduction1. Following a Successful Formula: Whiteout as Case Study2. The Scribbler’s Trade: A Midnight Train to Somewhere3. “A Most Remarkable Writer”: The Symon Myles Mysteries and the ­Non-Series Hero4. A Foray into Film: What Those Old Scripts Can Tell Us5. A Fine Kettle of Fish: Beyond First Success6. A Case—or Two—in Point: The Struggle for Authorial Independence7. On Wings of Eagles: Narrative Negotiation of “True Story” Fiction8. Night Over Water: A Flight of Fancy9. A Political Dimension: Entering the FrayConclusionFilmographyChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Carlos Ramet is the executive assistant to the president/executive director of public affairs and professor of English and creative writing at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan. He is the author of fifteen published short stories and numerous scholarly articles on the craft of fiction, genre writers and Ken Follett as contemporary novelist. He lives in Saginaw.

“this is one of the best books I’ve ever read on the career and methods of a popular novelist”—Mystery Scene; “Ramet provides us with another way to inspect the value of Follett’s body of work and to understand the man, but also gives us a view of how books are written and how the real world shapes a writer and his fiction in general. Ramet succeeds in crafting a biography of Follett in which the writing process is examined as well via the life of a literary success story”—Popular Culture Review.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsviiiPrefaceChronologyIntroduction1. Following a Successful Formula: Whiteout as Case Study2. The Scribbler’s Trade: A Midnight Train to Somewhere3. “A Most Remarkable Writer”: The Symon Myles Mysteries and the ­Non-Series Hero4. A Foray into Film: What Those Old Scripts Can Tell Us5. A Fine Kettle of Fish: Beyond First Success6. A Case—or Two—in Point: The Struggle for Authorial Independence7. On Wings of Eagles: Narrative Negotiation of “True Story” Fiction8. Night Over Water: A Flight of Fancy9. A Political Dimension: Entering the FrayConclusionFilmographyChapter NotesBibliographyIndex