New art documentary by LAArtTV. part one, part two being filmed, interviewing L.A. writers. Find success.
At the literary celebration the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books there was about hundred and sixty thousand people, writers, readers, modern polymath crowd. “The moment the catalyst we’ve always hoped to meet suddenly appears on the scene.”
LaArtTV, Story-driven interview asked writers this question. A discouraged writer—seven years deep, twenty rejections—wanders the festival.
Finally, in my mind, Magic Ink guides me toward a bestseller.
Finally, in my mind, Magic Ink guides me toward a bestseller.
An artist-painter approaches, placing in my hand a bottle of mysterious, magical ink—enough for only 118 pages. I must write only after midnight, while he paints me at the same hour. When I reach page 118 of this roman à clef story he reaches the 118th stroke of my portrait. This could be the “Recipe Dream,” for a bestseller. The painting, with its one-of-a-kind creative story, was auctioned in Paris at Christie’s for one hundred twenty-eight thousand dollars. “I wonder how many romantic strokes live within those 118 after-midnight pages of the painting.” If it stands as the ultimate social currency of art, you take it to auction—not a dealer. Joanna Gronward, writer.
Question: Does AI diminish the competitive level of your writing against serious competition?
Question: 20 second pitch to Netflix on adapting their book into a film.
The fact is that some mega bestsellers are 140 pages or less: The Little Prince, The Metamorphosis, Animal Farm. What role does the amygdala—linked to emotional salience—play in how a book “impinges” on the human brain and potentially becomes a bestseller? Not plot. Not length. Not even writing quality at first contact. Each page of a story creates impact through its core premise—the thing someone can say in one sentence and another person immediately gets and wants. A concept simple enough to spread, but deep enough to promise meaning. Joan Strausman PhD, for laarttv.
In 2025, major European and American publishers encountered a “bidding war over a hot manuscript” for the rights to the new literary star, 20-year-old Swiss writer Nelio Biedermann’s novel Lazar, compared to Thomas Mann’s family epic Buddenbrooks. Circana/Nielsen.
In this charged aura every writer longs to feel, what will be the subject of the one book everyone wants to read? LaArtTV©
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