Types of Hooks for Your Books

...hooks are what reels the reader into your story. Usually, it's the first sentence... After reading many, many books, I've come across many, many hooks. I categorized those hooks so you can use them for your own books and I added some examples from successful, published works of fiction so you can get a better idea of the types of hooks.

Writing Fiction: How to “add more depth” to your character

If you write fiction or non-fiction, you might sometimes get this kind of response from editors or critics: "Add more depth to the character." Depth. Hmm, what do you think that means?