Hookline Books - the readers' choice

23/08/2022

Authors need to set a strong scene in the opening sentence. Debut authors don’t have the luxury of beginning with a long and languorous description, such as a backstory, memory or reflections.

22/08/2022

Opening sentences - what I have learned as a fiction editor
https://www.hooklinebooks.com/yvonnes-books.php

Authors need to set a strong scene in the opening sentence. Debut authors don’t have the luxury of beginning with a long and languorous description, such as a backstory, memory or reflections.

15/08/2022

This can be about how others make us feel – underconfident, depressed, unhappy to be around…Or they might make us feel better about ourselves.

15/08/2022

Creating characters - what I've learned as a fiction editor

This can be about how others make us feel – underconfident, depressed, unhappy to be around…Or they might make us feel better about ourselves.

08/08/2022

What I've learned as a fiction editor - more about plotting your novel

The sub-plot is dependent on the main plot, although it may not seem so at the time – it might provide twists, shows us how the main character reacts in other settings, provides depth to the story.

01/08/2022

What I’ve learned as a fiction editor
And how this might help you write a novel

The truth is there is no simple answer, no easy template, no cookie cutter plan to follow. I wish there were. Instead, every novel charts its own course, heads in its own ship through mostly unknown waters. Often writers are surprised where they end up. ‘I thought I was writing about love,’ they...

13/06/2022

"Just a Small Town feels like being told a town’s dirty secrets from a neighbour or a friend."

Just a Small Town: No work, no hope, forgotten by everyone. A jolt of happiness comes from getting high. This small town could be anywhere. eBook : Linggood, Paul: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

10/03/2022

"Unusual, intelligent and intriguing"
"I have just finished reading A Coin For The Hangman and already I am feeling quite bereft; no more Reg, no more Henry."
"An unusual story that takes you to places you have never been - the hangman's home, the condemned prisoner's cell and the ex*****on chamber."
"We know from the start that he is hanged for a murder, but we don't know who or whether he really did it."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01CKX2YCG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

09/03/2022

"An easy read, well-researched, well-written, and well-flavoured with truth."
"A sad but enlightening story."
"I thought this book was well researched and portrayed the way that religion has blighted many lives in the past."
"What a heart-breaking fiction of what was a true story for so many lost and forgotten children who were shipped off to Canada from England."

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listen-Child-Elizabeth-Howard-ebook/dp/B01LW01NBJ

08/03/2022

"Part portrait of an alcoholic, part thriller."
"I loved the South African context that was very real."
"Alcohol and its problems are a force in the novel."
"A gripping account of a young woman battling both alcoholism and the increasing sinister intentions of a man she meets in rehab."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06W9JV6GY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

24/02/2022

"A lovingly painted portrait of Cohen’s middle years."
"A sensuous and sensual evocation of life on Hydra"
"Beautifully written and well worth reading."
"A fascinating slice of the real lives of the artistic community who settled on Hydra for a year."


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Wine-Tamar-Hodes/dp/0995623546

23/02/2022

"Should come with a warning sign... will not get anything else done until this is read!"
"Just a Small Town feels like being told a town’s dirty secrets from a neighbour or a friend."
"A brilliantly savage debut."
"Gritty, grimy and dark but delivered in a casual and matter of fact manner with an underlying sense of hope and growth"
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Small-Town-Paul-Linggood/dp/1916410391

22/02/2022

"Lays bare the despicable underworld trade of human trafficking."
"A dark, disturbing and very real story for today."
"Dark and twisting page-turner."
"Heart rending and thought-provoking thriller."

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Takers-Keepers-Where-Do-Disappeared/dp/1838057919

21/02/2022

"A long time since I finished a book this quickly."
"A wonderful, wonderful book! I couldn't put it down once I'd started it."
"An excellent read."
"I feel this will undoubtedly be a film in the future, only Where the Crawdads sing, for me, has so vividly bought a story to life."

Mission: A boy, his father and an unforgivable lie

29/01/2022

Ricocheting into 2022 -

28/10/2021

Where do the disappeared go? Amazon are selling The Takers and Keepers paperback for £2.58 (I don't know how they do it but please take advantage)

The Takers and Keepers: Where Do the Disappeared Go?

27/10/2021

Mission tells of a boy who hears his mother tell an unforgiveable lie. Amazon has discounted the paperback to £4.20.
It's a wonderful read -please take advantage of this offer:

Mission: A boy, his father and an unforgivable lie

01/07/2021

Original and compelling -

I’m a British publisher specialising in fiction by those who have studied creative writing at post-graduate level. We have published more than thirty works in all genre by graduates from over twenty universities. Many manuscripts reach me, but few have grabbed my attention as completely as Missi...

06/04/2021

'A mesmerising fable of greed and revenge,' Sarah Haywood - https://mailchi.mp/5dd59fdbc32d/a-boy-and-his-father-separated-by-an-unforgivable-lie-1667536

29/03/2021

Sounds about right!

24/03/2021

A boy and his father separated by an unforgivable lie. - https://mailchi.mp/3fd40a0e59df/a-boy-and-his-father-separated-by-an-unforgivable-lie-1666572

22/03/2021

A boy and his father separated by an unforgivable lie. - https://mailchi.mp/2cf7e7080e4d/a-boy-and-his-father-separated-by-an-unforgivable-lie-1666268

15/03/2021

A boy and his father separated by an unforgivable lie. - https://mailchi.mp/f24abbd61611/a-boy-and-his-father-separated-by-an-unforgivable-lie-1665452

13/03/2021

Marching onward - https://mailchi.mp/346202a20194/zur82z1z3o

Where do the disappeared go? The girls and women who vanish, seldom to resurface. Allen Kimbo, a freelance reporter, believes there is a network of men who guard their “taken” and keep the silence that surrounds such deeds.

10/03/2021

Stolen, disappeared, where do these girls go? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Takers-Keepers-Where-disappeared-ebook/dp/B08SW55678/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

09/03/2021

A boy and his father separated by an unforgivable lie. - https://mailchi.mp/bd0c0b848169/a-boy-and-his-father-separated-by-an-unforgivable-lie-1664024

08/03/2021

The Disappeared, the story behind The Takers and Keepers by Ivan Pope:
https://medium.com//the-disappeared-9e2bf9aec139

On the nineteenth of April 2008 in Austria a woman and her children emerged from twenty-four years of underground captivity.

04/03/2021

You can read the rest of the story next week...

Where do the disappeared go? People who vanish, seldom to resurface.'They say write what you know, so I wrote my nightmare.'Buy a copy at http://www.takersan...

02/03/2021

Where do the disappeared go? - https://mailchi.mp/c1857a690832/where-do-the-disappeared-go-1663060

Allen Kimbo, a freelance reporter, believes there is a network of men who guard their “taken” and keep the silence that surrounds such deeds.