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The cover is important, the blurb is important, the reviews are important, the story structure is important. The first page is important. One of the best exercises I ever did was to bring home tw...
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#1: Initial revision
The cover is important, the blurb is important, the reviews are important, the story structure is important. The first page is important. One of the best exercises I ever did was to bring home twenty books in my genre and analyze the first page of each. There is a pattern, even with the differences between authors. I adapted that pattern to my manuscript and immediately people were more easily drawn in.