There are a lot of reasons to love a book—simple entertainment, to evoke emotion, to escape our lives. Then there’s…
Category: Craft
It’s such an honor to welcome Kathryn Craft to the blog today. Her debut novel, THE ART OF FALLING, is the…
I know we’re supposed to hook the reader in the first sentence, but the more I think about it, the…
As the other debs have mentioned this week, opening lines are special. Those first words do a lot of things–they…
First lines of books are a lot like debut novels. Just because they come first in a narrative doesn’t mean…
We all know what suspense is, right? Suspense is that thing, you know, that causes you to turn the pages…
Cue the eye rolls and the chorus of “ugh”… I know there are plenty of you out there who hate…
