The Hook: Creating a Powerful Story Opening

Agents, publishers, and everyday readers gravitate toward high-concept ideas in today's fiction. They all test-read the openings of stories to determine whether or not they should invest their precious time reading further. Weak and flawed openings doom stories to the rejection pile or are put back on the bookstore shelf. Learn practical techniques for pulling your readers into a novel, novella, or short story. An inspiring Saturday morning coffee-and-pastries session.