Twist Plot Lover Prints

"Mum, Dad - I've got a shock for you: I'm pregnant."

'Who would have thought there was a market for it?'

"You do realize his ‘nose so bright’ is going to attract a horde of Defense Department drones."

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"It's about sex and revenge, except for a short chapter on the Continental Congress."

"Why didn't one of the bears just call 9-1-1 and have that girl arrested for trespassing?"

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

Evil elves trying to take advantage of Christmas tree fairies.

'And I love the part when he finds out that it was his brother all along!'

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

That lovely summer day, Little Red Riding Hood decided to deviate from the script.

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

"Sorry kids, wrong house. This one is made of vegetables."

Rip Van Winkle, "He's survived the operation, now he's sleeping peacefully."

Subway Thrillers

"I'm sorry, my therapist told me to give up slaying dragons."

"The problem is there's no engine. Just a mysterious plot device."

'This has a great ending...he shoots her.'

“I’ve got an idea for a story: Gus and Ethel live on Long Island, on the North Shore. He works sixteen hours a day writing fiction. Ethel never goes out, never does anything except fix Gus sandwiches and in the end she becomes a nympho-lesbo-killer-whore. Here’s your sandwich”

10 commandments

"After several chapters of pushing a boulder up a hill over and over again, I think your average reader will watn to see something else happen, Mr. Sisyphus."

"I don't mind car chases as long as they're car chases about something."

At Mary Higgins Clark's book club.

"Now THAT'S what I call a surprise ending!!"

'Gosh, he looks so peaceful lying there, I almost hate to wake him up and put him in the oven.'

"Better than Chekhov"

"Mr. Dankin, the plumber will see you now."

"We love your manuscript! It's exactly the sort of big, sprawling epic we've been looking for!"

"We need a plot twist."

He Didn't Know How To Appreciate Nature

"It's a novel about loss, and redemption, and fantastic sex."

Crime

Cinema. I won't tell you what happens, but there's a great twist at the end.

"No, I don't mind if you peek,' said the mystery writer to the next victim.

I've decided to become a mystery writer. "Dark clouds filled the horizon as two young lovers walked along the shore. As if sensing something was about to happen, seabirds cautiously circled around the couple. Suddenly and without warning, the young man reached inside his jacket and pulled out a large bag of pretzels and began to feed the birds." I'm very proud of that opening. The story has just started and it's already filled with twists and terns.