02/05/10 - 02/26/10 - Online Workshop - Fishing In: Hooks that Grab the Reader with Kristing Hardy

Does your MS/WIP lack the oomph at the beginning and end of your chapter?
Need help with that killer hook to keep your readers from putting the book down? Join Kristin Hardy as she explains why hooks are so important and how you can create them!

February 2010 — Fishing In: Hooks that Grab the Reader
Presented by Kristin Hardy
Dates: February 5-26
Deadline: February 2
FMI: http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/#FEB

Course Description:

They're used in hit songs.
They're used in movies.
They're used in television.
They're even used to catch fish.

Hooks. Whether you're talking about CD buyers, movie fans, romance readers or, yes, editors, the hook seals the deal. It gives the audience that one irresistible lure to make them want more. In the romance market, we hear a lot of talk about "classic hooks," with the assumption that everybody knows what they are.

What are these mythical hooks?
How do you use them,
Why do you need them and
What can they do to help you write books that sell?
And how do you spin them to be uniquely your own?

Instructor Bio:
Kristin Hardy is a fourteen year veteran of journalism. She's well versed in determining the correct source for a story and contacting them by e-mail/phone to get the accurate, detailed answers to her questions. To research her novels, Kristin has done a ride-along with a San Diego fire company, spent a day with a microbrewery brew master, toured the conservation laboratory of a major fine arts museum, watched maple sugar being made, interviewed everyone from U.S. Department of Agriculture officials to a World Cup ski champion.

A two-time RITA nominee, Kristin currently writes for Harlequin Blaze and Silhouette Special Edition. Her first novel, My Sexiest Mistake, won a National Readers' Choice Award and was subsequently made into a movie by the Oxygen Network. She has won an RT Bookclub career achievement award for series romance, as well as an award for Best Special Edition of 2006. Her
nineteenth book, Her Christmas Surprise, hit the shelves December 2007.

Read more about Kristin at her website: http://www.kristinhardy.com/

You can register for the following on-line class through February 2. Each class is $16.
FMI: www.lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/

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