This month’s fun first line excerpts come from title by authors: Caitlin Rozakis, Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Helen Harper, Jen Lassalle, and Rob Childson.
Tag: Lynette M. Burrows
Writing How-to: Create Characters Your Readers Love and Hate
Want to know why readers put down your books? Lynette M. Burrows discusses six common character problems that make readers put books down and how to fix them.
Mother Jones: Champion of the American Working Class
Irish immigrant, Mary Harris, aka Mother Jones, lost everything twice. Undaunted, she became a tireless advocate of the American working class.
Consistently Inconsistent OR Striving for Consistency
This recycled post from 2017 serves as a reminder and a measure of my progress as a blogger, author newsletter provider, and the behavioral changes I’ve made.
First Lines from Tales of Spaceships and Aliens
The hooky-ness of a first line is in the reader’s eyes. These first lines are from books with classic space ships and aliens tropes.