Your First 50 Pages—Pass or Fail?
The first fifty pages of your novel carry the heaviest burden for your story. The opening chapters are all about…
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Wrapping Up Our Look at Best Seller First Pages
Sadly, I’m bringing this look at first pages to an end—at least for now. It’s been an intriguing journey looking…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: The Sword of Summer
For our final post that looks at best-seller first pages, we’re going to take a look at one of Rick…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Fire Touched
This week’s first page falls under the genres of urban fantasy, action-adventure, and romance. Author Patricia Briggs has many fantasy…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: The Selection
Each week, we’ve been taking a look at the first page of best-selling novels of various genres and seeing how…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Support and Defend
I promised you last week that I’d give you a much better, stronger first page, and so I jumped at…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Avenue of Mysteries
I chose one of John Irving’s novels—Avenue of Mysteries—to examine in this week’s look at first pages. I read a…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
For this week’s first-page examination, we’re going to dive into my favorite book that I listened to last year—The Ocean…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: All the Light We Cannot See
This week we’re going to look at the first page of the highly acclaimed novel All the Light We Cannot…
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