What Grabs Your Reader?
What Grabs Your Reader?By MarthaIt is the dramatic question that grabs your reader and holds him or her. It creates a narrow path that forces the reader into suspense that won’t let go. It moves the story forward. All bestseller-kind-of novels have it.
Have you noticed that untrained eyes want you to explain everything in that first line, first paragraph. But it is the "Dramatic Question" that creates the hook.
In my novel, the Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires, a mystery/thriller sprinkled