Irresistible First Chapters
Studies show people make judgments about others’ character in a tenth of a second—and readers, agents, and editors may decide almost as quickly whether or not to keep reading your story.
First pages and chapters carry a lot of weight: They must introduce characters and give readers a reason to care about what happens to them; set up enough suggestion of conflict or friction to intrigue; create questions that keep us turning pages; while giving readers enough information to orient us to the story and set up the journey to come.
In other words, they have to hook your readers, whether that’s your ultimate audience for your book or the gatekeepers of the industry.
Tiffany Yates Martin has more than 30 years’ experience working in the publishing industry—with major publishers and bestsellers as well as successful indie authors—seeing what separates the stories that sell from the ones that don’t. In this class she shares the principles she’s culled from editing thousands of manuscripts to help you create dynamic, irresistible opening pages.
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