WILDEST DREAMS OPENING LINE: There were forty-seven minutes until I was supposed to arrive at Serendipity Books, and I had already checked my messenger bag four times. #DVparty

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THE SPACE SHE LEFT, opening line

For When Death Finds Life's first line I wanted something sweet

The ice cream was melting.

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Day 3 : #DVParty

Yeah. That's about right and Charmi (a Software Warrior) has had enough of it! 😆🤫

#DVparty Day 3!

Title - BARREN

Prologue

Entry 1

I’m trying to write it down…
Something like this…
Well—
I fear it is that “something” that slipped,
right through your hands, again.
I’ll go for it, of course—
But, as you can already see, by my words,
this won’t be comforting.

The overhead bin is much higher than I remember. Resting my bag on the seat, I catch my breath and allow a few people to squeeze past me. My heart always chooses the wrong time to beat too quickly.
“Want help?”
I’m so flustered that I almost don’t recognize that voice.

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Opening line for HER LADY SHIP:

The Godiva was going to sink, at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour, on a calm day in June.

Check out the opening lines of THE OTHER FAIRY GODMOTHER! 👸🏻✨👸🏼

“Fizzing streaks of light ricocheted off the granite walls of Harriet and Virtuosa's bedroom. The culprit, as always, was Harriet. The Fairy bounced on her bed, brandishing her wand with exuberant abandon.”

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Raven’s POV starts us off in my YA fantasy, THE WAR BETWEEN WAVES (like an Inca-inspired PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN) 🏴‍☠️🌊🏝️:

I swing the helm portside, stars above a beckoning beacon towards our future, towards the siél, towards the metal that makes even a god beg for their life.

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#DVParty D3!!

Opening lines are like wedding vows except there’s no cake after and you have to say them to everyone who picks up the book 😂

"You are sentenced to cryosleep in a Warmachine."
The gavel hung in the air just long enough for a final plea.
"Your Honor, I beg you reconsider. Warmachines return so rarely that you might as well have sentenced me to death!"
The hall went quiet. All awaited for the judge's final word.
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At first, Vespertine mistook the barn door’s complaint for a sound effect in a dream. When he considered, half-roused, that it could be something radioactive & rabid, he really woke up.

His next thought was that his shadow had kidnapped him—again.

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The blazer Hester had washed & ironed yesternight had vanished.

Hester cursed herself, and her flatbrain of a shadow, but mostly herself.

(And just for fun, you can find the opening from Hester's brother’s first POV chapter below!)

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Threadbare, a Fantasy #MG opens with a single word.

Tap.

From ALIENS HAVE KIDNAPPED CHRISTMAS

“Not since 1960 has Christmas been in this much danger.”

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#DVparty Opening line for my #YA romance: “Hunched over in my best friend’s tiny bathroom, I’m trying to ignore my boyfriend’s multiple texts while avoiding stabbing myself with borrowed mascara.”

Day 3 of ##DVParty -

The opening line of CARELESS WHISPERS, my 𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒙 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬 #Bookclub #Mystery #R set in Greece.

MUSE

It all went sideways the day my boss, Paris Parris, Senior Literary Agent at Stallings Literary Agency, sat me down in her lux office after reading what I considered to be my heart and soul made external - my manuscript: Pleiades and Prejudice: The Post-Humanization of Ada Alvaston.

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#DVParty day 3: Opening lines of my NA romance, The Great Throuple.

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WE DON'T DIE HERE - YA Speculative Thriller

Opening line:

If I didn’t move soon, I’d spend the rest of my night smelling like a dumpster.