‘Kill All Your Darlings’ by David Bell. Berkley, 416 pages, $17 The title of David Bell’s 11th stand-alone novel refers to advice well known to every writer. Sometimes the seemingly
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“I’m always surprised by things in the book,” said USA Today best-selling author David Bell (not the same David Bell who manages the Cincinnati Reds).
That’s true even in tightly plotted thrillers like “Kill All Your Darlings,” the latest novel from Westwood native Bell, which will be released Tuesday, July 6.
“Really the outline is a security blanket, it’s a thing that I can fall back on if I feel like I don’t know where the book is going to go,” Bell said.
And “kill all your darlings” is writing advice from William Faulkner, meaning you may need to edit out your favorite bits.