Thriller 101

Crafting the Perfect Hook: Debut Author Brooke Robinson Reveals Her Opening Chapter Secrets


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EPISODE INFO:
The opening of your story is something we talk about a lot on, through their one-on-one and that's because it's so important. 

It's not just important to get an agent's attention. It's also important to hook and hold on to readers.

Luckily, we have a debut author who balanced her opening in a way that I personally think is genius. And she's going to talk all about how she pulled it off.

BIO:
Today’s guest is Brooke Robinson grew up in Sydney, Australia. She worked as a bookseller, university administrator and playwright in Australia and the UK. For a short time she wrote music reviews and interviewed rock musicians for streetpress magazines in Sydney, and for an even shorter time, considered a career in physics. The Interpreter is her first novel.

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