If you stumbled or have no idea how to answer any of these questions, trust me, you’re not alone.

“Kill that baby!” - Sherrilyn Kenyon - Acheron

Do you know how many hooks are included in the following sentence?.

Do you know where hooks must be on the page to convince a reader to buy your book?.

Do you know what the most common types of hooks are for the type of book you are writing?.

Do you know how many hooks you need to get a reader to turn the page?.Writers Who Are Willing to Become Hookers! With two books’ worth of material, it’s hard to narrow down the highlights, but Mary’s here to touch on the 9 types of hooks and to answer frequent questions about using hooks.Īlso, check out the details below for a giveaway of one of her new books! Please welcome Mary Buckham! Yay! *smile* We benefited from Mary’s advice last year on using point of view for settings and on how to anchor settings, and now she has a new two-book series on hooks. Today, I’m excited to welcome Mary Buckham to the blog to discuss hooks. So a common piece of advice is to create hooks-phrases, sentences, ideas, questions, etc.-to fuel that need within readers. Our readers need to keep turning pages to learn more, to answer their questions, to reach the happy ending, to figure out “who did it,” etc. One of the ways we create compelling writing is by creating a need within our readers. Our compelling writing turns a reader into a fan.Our interesting blurb turns a shopper into a reader.Our intriguing cover turns a browser into a shopper.We want them to get to the end of our book and love our storytelling so much that they can’t wait to buy the next one. We want readers who start our story not be able to put it down. We have a great back-cover blurb, and readers are buying our story. We have the perfect attention-getting cover, and readers are clicking to read more.

Invisible Journey by Mary Buckham