You worked hard polishing your manuscript, but you want it to be the best it can be, so you joined a critique group. After what seems like the longest week ever, the critiques finally come back. But instead of the praise and minor mistakes you expected to see pointed out, your pages are flooded with […]
Five ways to rivet your readers with a first-rate first chapter
Some books draw the reader right in, like a host at an open doorway, and quickly become very hard to put down. Others, not so much. I analyzed two books I find riveting. (While both books had romance stories embedded, neither of these books is in the typical romance genre.) What did the openings of […]