Do you like to read romance novels? Wouldn't you like to know more about your favorite authors? Well you came to the right place! We are 47 authors who have banded together to support and promoted each other. If you've made your way over here from Kim Handysides page, you've come to the right place. But before you continue, let me just say that Kim is one of my favorite people in the world and a super reader. She not only read at least five books while on vacation, she tells me she wrote over 13,000 words on a short story she's working on. That's dedication.
Today's challenge comes from another dear friend, Sarah Hegger, Historical and Contemporary Romance Author. Check out her Amazon Page for details about her great books. Sarah wanted us to share a great beginning from our favorite book and then our opening lines from our Work In Progress. So here goes:
Today's challenge comes from another dear friend, Sarah Hegger, Historical and Contemporary Romance Author. Check out her Amazon Page for details about her great books. Sarah wanted us to share a great beginning from our favorite book and then our opening lines from our Work In Progress. So here goes:
My favorite opener comes from Joan Didion's truly awesome biography which explores an intensely personal portrait of a marriage and life in good times and bad. Joan's daughter developed flu-like symptoms and was hospitalized with septic shock right before Christmas. Then after Joan and her husband visited their daughter in the hospital, John Dunne, Didion's husband of 40 years, suffered a fatal coronary. This book was Didion's exploration of how all of her fixed ideas about life, illness and death changed in the blink of an eye.
Her great beginning goes like this:
Life changes Fast.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Those were the first words I wrote after it happened.
This book was truly stunning in its candor, its piercing details, and its simplicity. Loss is never easy. Even though I read this book years ago, those thoughts have stayed with me. I'm rereading this book right now, after losing my cousin to the very same illness that Joan's daughter eventually recovered from. Life is precious. And it can change in an instant. Be sure you tell your loved ones and friends how much they mean to you. You can't know when the opportunity will be taken from you.
On a less maudlin note, my current work in progress, Team Vino (working title and not a very good one I must say) is meant to be funny and snarky. This is a short story I'm working on for a boxed set and will be the precursor to my new series, Romancing The Vine. Here's my opener from it:
Jules Rosetti’s happy, quiet, far-from-the-madding-crowd life tumbled straight into the shitter in the time it took her assistant to utter eight fateful words.
“I thought you told her she couldn’t come.”
Look for novella in July, 2015.
And now, you should check out Elizabeth Janett's great beginning. I'm heading there myself.
Her great beginning goes like this:
Life changes Fast.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Those were the first words I wrote after it happened.
This book was truly stunning in its candor, its piercing details, and its simplicity. Loss is never easy. Even though I read this book years ago, those thoughts have stayed with me. I'm rereading this book right now, after losing my cousin to the very same illness that Joan's daughter eventually recovered from. Life is precious. And it can change in an instant. Be sure you tell your loved ones and friends how much they mean to you. You can't know when the opportunity will be taken from you.
On a less maudlin note, my current work in progress, Team Vino (working title and not a very good one I must say) is meant to be funny and snarky. This is a short story I'm working on for a boxed set and will be the precursor to my new series, Romancing The Vine. Here's my opener from it:
Jules Rosetti’s happy, quiet, far-from-the-madding-crowd life tumbled straight into the shitter in the time it took her assistant to utter eight fateful words.
“I thought you told her she couldn’t come.”
Look for novella in July, 2015.
And now, you should check out Elizabeth Janett's great beginning. I'm heading there myself.
Just a fast reminder before you go - Cooking Up Love is on sale through Saturday for 99¢ at all retailers. The opening line in that story is What a dump! I hope you'll check it out while it's on sale.
A Lyrical Press Contemporary Romance
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A Lyrical Press Contemporary Romance
Buy the book:
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | iTunes
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