Schadenfreude and the Bad Sex Award
By My last post was on the Bulwer-Lytton competition, where contestants submit a bad opening line to ...
The Literary Lounge Lizard: Pick-up Lines Gone Wrong
My last two posts were salutes to the greatest pick-up lines in literature--those magical opening sentences ...
The Great American Opener: More Thoughts on Literary Pick-up Lines
Following up on my last post, I had some more thoughts on what makes a great ...
The Art of the Literary Pick-up Line: “Hey, call me, Ishmael”
For an author, the opening line of a novel is the literary equivalent of the snappy ...
Dead Lawyers, Pet Cemeteries, and First Novels
The two questions readers most frequently ask me are: 1. Why are so many legal thrillers written by trial ...
