The Matisse Puzzle - COUNTDOWN TO SAMPLING: 4 DAYS

There is something about simplicity that struck us as necessary to The Matisse Puzzle. And so we decided that the text had to speak for itself. Not through over-wrought metaphors that move the focus from plot to language; not through reflections that complicate reading; not through descriptions done for the sake of description.

The Matisse Puzzle, the way it sits, is a work given primarily to plot. If there's no action, there's no satisfaction: this is the guiding principle of our novel. We wanted the work to be a page turner: one where what matters most is what is about to happen, rather than what has happened. Of course, readers will be the judges of this. Whether we succeeded or not, is a matter to be pondered as soon as our sample is out; which is going to happen, yes, you guessed it, on Sunday, April 6.
Four more sleeps and we're there.