Free HOOK Edit: my guitar case bounced—
by Marie Devers

In August of 2009 I was starting my independent editing business, so I ran a free HOOK Edit Special: readers sent me the first 150 words of their novels, and I did a quick Developmental Edit on each one, followed by a Copy & Line Edit. You can still find all those Sample Edits under my Editing Services. But I thought I’d bring them back here to my blog this spring.

Let’s edit a hook page twice a week—every Monday and Saturday through March, April, and May—shall we?

Just to remind you: picture a vaudeville stage for your hook scene. Your reader’s out there in the limelight, and you’re in the wings with a crook cane. What you are using to interrupt them in their finest hour, right when they’re hitting their warbling high C, and yank them willy-nilly into your parallel universe?

We’ll kick it off with:

My guitar case bounced, by Marie Devers