How do you build a reading community around a book with a dark, difficult premise?
Andrew Davidson's first novel, The Gargoyle, opens with some tough passages about car accidents and burn victims. His book site features real people telling real stories about being "burned by love." Read a couple and submit your own. Check it out:
"We met at work. He seemed nice. I was a virgin. He seduced me and made me think that if I gave it up for him that we would last."
Bookninja alerts us to some happy news. Choose-your-own-adventure style interactive stories are making a comeback.
In even odder news, The Avocado Papers is selling first paragraphs to writers. While this seems like one of those kooky web stories that may or may not be true, the satirical site does have an impressive catalog of evocative paragraphs.
That said, the whole battle is figuring out what crazy, unexpected and strange elements I need to put in my first paragraph. Without that process, writing would be pretty boring. What do you think? (Thanks, GalleyCat.)
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