Wednesday, April 15, 2009

How to start a book


My book Dying to Survive is coming out in the next couple of weeks.

I wondered how best to start the opening chapter. Honesty is the best policy, I thought, so I went with this:

My name is Rachael. I'm smartly dressed, a college student and the mother of a gorgeous baby boy. I have everything I want in life: work I like, the support of my family and friends, my son. I'm a normal twenty-nine-year-old, but I'm also a recovering heroin addict.

What do you think? I feel it's too the point, let the reader know what they're in for. 

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