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First Lines For LL & LD Awareness Month

It’s April which means it’s LL & LD Awareness month. Read these first lines of science fiction stories whose primary character lives with a disability.

Published April 7, 2025
Categorized as First Lines, Reading, Science Fiction Tagged Disabilites, first lines, Lynette M. Burrows, reading

How To Build a Reading Toolkit for Your Writing Toolbox

Photo of a Black man reading a book with a red cover

Lynette M. Burrows shows how to turn your reading time into a way to improve your writing. Read more to learn why and how to build your reader’s toolbox.

Published March 24, 2025
Categorized as How To's, Writing Tagged Lynette M. Burrows, quotes, reading, reading toolbox, writer's toolbox

Celebrate National Storytelling Week with First Lines

I love to check the first lines of a book to see if I want to read it, don’t you? Here are first lines that you might enjoy, too.

Published February 3, 2025
Categorized as First Lines, Holidays, People & Customs, Reading Tagged books to read, Lynette M. Burrows, reading

First Lines In Adventures

It’s darker and colder in the Northern hemisphere. The perfect time to get cozy and read. These first lines present adventures in other places or other times.

Published January 6, 2025
Categorized as First Lines, Reading, Science Fiction Tagged adventure, Lynette M. Burrows, quotes, reading

First Lines by Indigenous Authors

Monday, October 14th is Indigenous People’s day. Let’s commemorate the day with first lines from science fiction and fantasy books by Indigenous authors.

Published October 7, 2024
Categorized as First Lines, Science Fiction Tagged fantasy, first lines, Horror, indigenous authors, reading

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