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Regular Meeting Plus - Kate Moretti: Openings: Hooks and Lines. What makes a good novel opening?

  • 28 Jan 2017
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Palmer Library
 
Regular Meeting -at the
 Palmer Library

You must be 18 years of age or older to attend this or any other GLVWG event.

10:00 - 10:50 Success Stories, Introduction of new members, Officer reports.


Coffee Tea and Goodies.

11:00 - 12:00 Morning program:
Kate Moretti:  Openings: Hooks and Lines. What makes a good novel opening? Is it the first sentence? We will talk about the stakes, how to make them apparent immediately, and why high stakes aren't the end all and be all of the hook. The presentation will include real-life literary examples and participants will workshop some bland opening lines to give them more of a punch.

Katie is asking people to do two things to prepare for Saturday morning's session:

1.  Think about your favorite first lines in literature.

2.  Bring the first line of your current work-in-progress, if you have one.


Kate Moretti is the New York Times bestseller of THOUGHT I KNEW YOU and BINDS THAT TIE. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two kids, and a dog. She's worked in the pharmaceutical industry for ten years as a scientist, and has been an avid fiction reader her entire life. Her newest novel, THE VANISHING YEAR will be available September 2016 (Atria/S&S).

She enjoys traveling and cooking, although with two kids, a day job, and writing, she doesn't get to do those things as much as she'd like.

Her lifelong dream is to buy an old house with a secret passageway.


 Afternoon workshop

Jennifer Lader: “No-Fail Videoconferencing”

If an agent, publisher, or client asks to meet with you by videoconference, you can be ready with a few tips from this experienced speaker-coach. Learn what to do and how to use videoconferencing to your advantage. A few lucky audience members will get to appear on-screen for real-time coaching.

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