Hooked
Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go
by Les Edgerton
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appears in Best Books on Writing, Writing, and Nonfiction.
The first pages are the #1 key to acceptance or rejection of manuscriptsmost agents and editors claim to make their decision on a manuscript after the very first page, which means that no writer can afford to have a weak story beginning The first and only fictionwriting book that focuses exclusively on beginningsno other book on the market a...
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appears in Best Books on Writing, Writing, and Nonfiction.
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