I need to write one of these and I have to say that I'm at a loss.
I've read all about them, but WOW its not that easy to actually sit down and do it.
I'm posting the 1st Chapter of a book I wrote, look for the page link on blog tabs. Please help if you can.
Thanks I appreciate any assistance. Lisa
Working on a title also.
Here's what I have for a Hook so far.
Rebuilding a shattered life takes time. After 12 years Jessica finally felt she accomplished it, until an unexpected phone call brought the nightmare back.
Here are a few books we received this last week.
Robert Cleghorn was a good soldier, so good that he was first selected to join the Special Forces and following a head injury, was recruited by the CIA. A second head injury hospitalized him and psychiatrists rebuilt his memories from what they could recover.
He escapes from the hospital where he was a virtual prisoner and goes to find the love of his life: his brother’s wife and a typically English rose. Always on a knife-edge, Robert quarrels with and kills his sibling.
Finding his brother was about to go to England, Robert assumes the other’s identity and heads for the UK. Blithely unaware that the memories of his beloved are artificial, unaware of the mayhem about to erupt and the very astute English copper soon to be seeking him and unaware, too, of the Americans dogging his footsteps, Robert soldiers on. The fun is about to start. Sent for review.
#1 New York Times bestseller Kathy Reichs is back with her fourteenth novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan. This one I requested on Goodreads bookswap.
If you were left out in the cold snow all by yourself, would you be mad? Of course you would! Well, this snowman is out for revenge, especially after he sees those kids in the nice warm house, eating cookies and drinking hot chocolate! So, let's see what happens in this delightful story, nicely flowing with rhymed verse, beautifully illustrated and quite humorous indeed. So loveable, it's sure to be an instant favorite and a timeless classic with "kids" of all ages. Sent for review.
She serves him breakfast at her café every morning … but he never seems to notice her.
Carrie Carter’s small café in Seaside, New Jersey, is populated with a motley crew of locals … although Carrie only has eyes for Greg Barnes. He’s recovering from a vicious crime that three years ago took the lives of his wife and children—and from the year he tried to drink his reality away. While her heart does a happy Snoopy dance at the sight of him, he never seems to notice her, to Carrie’s chagrin.
When Carrie’s dishwasher is killed and her young waitress disappears, Greg finds himself drawn into helping Carrie solve the mysteries … and into her life. But when Carrie’s own painful past becomes all to present, her carefully constructed world begins to sink.
Will the fragile relationship she’s built with Greg implode from the weight of the baggage they both carry? Sent for review and I read it the day I got it. Review already posted.
Working on a title also.
Here's what I have for a Hook so far.
Rebuilding a shattered life takes time. After 12 years Jessica finally felt she accomplished it, until an unexpected phone call brought the nightmare back.
Here are a few books we received this last week.
Robert Cleghorn was a good soldier, so good that he was first selected to join the Special Forces and following a head injury, was recruited by the CIA. A second head injury hospitalized him and psychiatrists rebuilt his memories from what they could recover.
He escapes from the hospital where he was a virtual prisoner and goes to find the love of his life: his brother’s wife and a typically English rose. Always on a knife-edge, Robert quarrels with and kills his sibling.
Finding his brother was about to go to England, Robert assumes the other’s identity and heads for the UK. Blithely unaware that the memories of his beloved are artificial, unaware of the mayhem about to erupt and the very astute English copper soon to be seeking him and unaware, too, of the Americans dogging his footsteps, Robert soldiers on. The fun is about to start. Sent for review.
#1 New York Times bestseller Kathy Reichs is back with her fourteenth novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan. This one I requested on Goodreads bookswap.
If you were left out in the cold snow all by yourself, would you be mad? Of course you would! Well, this snowman is out for revenge, especially after he sees those kids in the nice warm house, eating cookies and drinking hot chocolate! So, let's see what happens in this delightful story, nicely flowing with rhymed verse, beautifully illustrated and quite humorous indeed. So loveable, it's sure to be an instant favorite and a timeless classic with "kids" of all ages. Sent for review.
She serves him breakfast at her café every morning … but he never seems to notice her.
Carrie Carter’s small café in Seaside, New Jersey, is populated with a motley crew of locals … although Carrie only has eyes for Greg Barnes. He’s recovering from a vicious crime that three years ago took the lives of his wife and children—and from the year he tried to drink his reality away. While her heart does a happy Snoopy dance at the sight of him, he never seems to notice her, to Carrie’s chagrin.
When Carrie’s dishwasher is killed and her young waitress disappears, Greg finds himself drawn into helping Carrie solve the mysteries … and into her life. But when Carrie’s own painful past becomes all to present, her carefully constructed world begins to sink.
Will the fragile relationship she’s built with Greg implode from the weight of the baggage they both carry? Sent for review and I read it the day I got it. Review already posted.
I have no idea how to write a query letter, but I wih you good luck in figuring it out. I'm sure you can find some good information by googling though. Or maybe there is an author that blogs that you can ask.
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ReplyDeleteShes lived through a nightmare and had fought hard to get away from it, that sounds intriguing. But you wrote 'the nightmare' like we know what the nightmare already is. Knowing that there is some trauma in her life is interesting and I definantly want to know more about that.
I have Googled it and I think I just need to do it with what I know, I hate doing things without knowing how to do it better then this, I like How-To Books and attending classes where I can pick the teachers brain. Thanks for stopping by. Lisa
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