Learn to Hook Readers With the Perfect Opening Line How you start your story is the most important part of your book. From the first sentence, you need to know how to keep readers hooked. In this fun to read, fast to learn guide, USA TODAY bestselling author Jackson Dean Chase shows YOU how to write dynamite story hooks for novels, novellas, short stories, and memoirs. Step by step, line by line. This quick and easy guide teaches you clever tips and strategies, including: The Top 10 Best Story Hooks that grab readers and keep them turning pages The Top 10 Worst Story Hooks that make you look like a hack, and How to Fix Them Advanced techniques to Combine Multiple Story Hooks to open your story any way you want A Foolproof Writing Strategy to hook readers with Clear Examples from your favorite bestsellersEveryone loves great writing advice because it helps you sell more books and make more fans. Buy this treasure trove of valuable knowledge now and turn your next book into a compulsive page-turner. NOTE: The Ultimate Author's Guide to Writing Dynamite Story Hooks was previously released as How to Start Your Novel. This "ultimate" edition has been significantly revised and expanded with 50 pages of incredible new content!

The first words on the page are the hardest you'll ever write. It's easy to get overwhelmed by choices. How do bestselling authors do it? Discover the secret formula your favorite authors use to create powerful, bestselling results. This book will teach you how to write killer opening lines-the kind that get noticed by agents, editors, and readers. The formula contains the seven sure-fire ways successful authors use to open their stories and the ten ways unsuccessful authors use (and how to fix them). In this breakthrough new book, all these secrets and more will be revealed in an unbeatable quick and easy system that will take your writing to the next level!

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet, William Shakespeare Stanley Schmidt guides you toward a better understanding of our universe to create beings who will live in your science fiction. Aliens and Alien Societies explains science to help you make your fiction plausible. You'll avoid bringing characters from solar systems unlikely to support life. Discover the galaxy's vastness and imagine the technology needed to cross it. Put biochemistry on your side to put viable creatures on your pages. Learn how engineering shapes life and why this suggests that intelligent inhabitants of other planets might have similarities to humans. Develop well-founded cultures and logical languages. Introduce aliens to people or other aliens. Portray them as individuals, true to their species. In this book, possibilities abound and lines between knowledge and conjecture blur enthrallingly. Aliens and Alien Societies is thoughtful, clear and utterly fascinating. It is filled with facts to help you write believable fictions about the things in heaven and earth.

The Snowflake Method-ten battle-tested steps that jump-start your creativity and help you quickly map out your story.

Learn to Write Compelling Characters from Heroes to Villains and Everyone Else! Bestselling authors know you must create amazing heroes and villains to hook readers. You can have the greatest plot in the world, but without equally great characters, readers won't care. USA TODAY bestselling author Jackson Dean Chase teaches you how to write dynamite characters for novels, novellas, and short stories. This fun, easy advice works regardless of genre, and regardless of whether you are an aspiring writer or seasoned professional. It covers heroes, villains, supporting cast, teams, and minor characters. NOTE: This book contains revised and expanded editions of Jackson's previous books, How to Write Realistic Characters, How to Write Realistic Men, and How to Write Realistic Women.

This guide to writing faster and better helps writers see what makes a story, then what it takes to research and write one. Also shows step-by-step how to cut wasted time.