We've been talking about the importance of catchy opening lines, but I omitted the one from my personal favorite of all my books, BULLETS:
"Some people are ridiculously easy to kill."
Next thing I've got coming out in bookstores is a short story in the new Mystery Writers of America anthology, "Crimes by Moonlight," edited by Charlaine Harris. Each mystery in the anthology, which hits stores in April, has a supernatural element. My story is called "Limbo," and the opening line is: "I snapped awake on a cold autopsy table."
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2.16.2010
First line fun
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From my upcoming "Collection of Excerpts" from which this excerpt was excerpted:
"Breakfast had been long over before he realized, hey, that was no raisin."
By the way, the security word here is "ditfulp" - which I now have dibs on.
Great line Steve! Can't wait to read the story.
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