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Opening Lines of Books: Hook Your Reader

November 11, 2011 by Kathy Steffen 4 Comments

Opening lines of books. So short. So simple. So important and hard to get right. You need them to hook your reader and pull them in. To make it so that reader has to read on. How do you do that? One of my friends has Yoda for a grandmother. Okay, not really. But that … [Read more…]

How to Start a Novel and Keep Your Readers Reading.

October 4, 2010 by Guest Post 60 Comments

How to Start a Novel and Keep Your Readers Reading is a guest post by Molly O’Keefe Molly O’Keefe is the Rita-Award-winning author of over fifteen romance novels. She published her first Harlequin romance at age 25 and hasn’t looked back. She loves exploring every character’s road towards happily ever after. How to start a … [Read more…]