People will describe the experience of reading in terms of the characters they are reading about – the characters of novels will sound like they are real people. The reader may not necessarily like the person or the character, but they will want to find out more about them.

• In fiction the works will often have a character’s name in the title, for non-fiction it will often be biographies or autobiographies. It may also include celebrity chefs (think of Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay). Many crime and mystery novels will have strong character doorways as will some science fiction and fantasy. This is more likely to happen in series novels using the same detectives, and multipart science fiction and fantasy works. Family sagas can also have dominant character doorways as you need to know who has married whom. Romance is a genre which is almost totally character dominant (as you know that the man and woman will end up together). For romance you need to explore further into the character – what roles the men have (farmer, fireman, doctor…) and if it is a believable match.
• Authors who write with character as a dominant doorway include Jamie Oliver, Ian Rankin and Richard Hammond
• You can see some more examples here.

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