Not Your Basic Love Story by Lindsay Maple

Can a roommate-hating city girl with a diet of chicken nuggets and cheap wine make it work with a vegetarian, non-drinking, Sikh man who lives with his rambunctious multigenerational family in the suburbs As Becky navigates her way through a culture she knows nothing about, she is faced with one of the most important decisions of her life: change her plans for how she'd imagined her happily-ever-after, or walk away from love. Back home in Vancouver, Canada, their relationship grows, and their two worlds collide. The problem Dev and Becky couldn't be more different. What begins as a fun vacation fling with a sexy stranger turns into so much more. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Stubbornly independent Becky isn't looking for love, but when sparks fly on a flight to Mexico she learns her carefully planned life might be the opposite of what she needs. and advice for emerging authors about community and indie publishing.Taschenbuch. Topics covered include genre blending the hook in a query letter skipping over the mundane turning a trope around to surprise the reader misfired meet-cutes surprise in the opening chapters mentioning character names in opening pages having the protagonist alone in the opening pages how to figure out the central conflict how to keep raising the stakes carrying conflict into act II starting out as an indie author and then getting an agent a shoutout to Rising Action Publishing Co.

They also share their successful query letters with our Kofi monthly supporters! In between, they discuss their own work and advice for writers. In today’s Books With Hooks segment, we try something different! Bianca critiques query letters while guests Maggie Giles, author of The Things We Lost, and Lindsay Maple, author of Not Your Basic Love Story, critique opening pages of romcoms which are the genres they write in. In today’s Books with Hooks segment, Carly and Cece each critique two submissions, discussing pitching literary vs upmarket fiction naming non-POV characters in a query letter head-hopping, interiority and emotionality mentioning sensitivity/authenticity readers writing about cultures that are not your own world building in historical fiction, world building and specificity in a fantasy query letter having surprise in the opening pages, quiet novels, upmarket fiction, and line-level writing and Carly suggests a prologue! Give online therapy a try at /WRITING and get on your way to being your best self. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp.

Not Your Basic Love Story by Lindsay Maple