Juicy Details! How do I begin Paranormal Privateers? With the hook!
Here is my actual first line hook and the rest of the first paragraph:
Dirac sighed with relief when the US flag came down and the surrender flag went up on the mast of the titanic luxury yacht. He didn’t mind firing rounds from his AK-47 over their heads, but he hated killing people. He knew they were only infidels, but they were still people.
The reader learns: 1) a US yacht is surrendering; 2) the pirate’s name is Dirac; 3) He’s ready to use his AK-47 on them; 4) The pirate considers the US citizens infidels.
More questions leap to mind immediately. Don’t you want to read the next paragraph? This whole scene is here: Imagine You’re a Privateer:
So I wrote the whole chapter pretty quickly. It’s a lot like performing magic: you lead the reader to expect one thing and then you make the opposite happen. I begin with the readers learning about zombie invincibility–and then put them in a seemingly impossible situation to escape.
Sometimes I lead you to expect a big fight and then all the villains escape. Sometimes I lead the reader to expect another adventure just like the last one–and have the heroes rescued by someone else.
Then just as you think you have the pattern of the chapter adventures established, I change all the rules of the game and add completely new and different villains.
Oh, I love writing!
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More Juicy New Details from Paranormal Privateers
It’s not all lollipops and roses. Aside from the light-hearted chapters about the Somali pirates, I have a worldwide epidemic–affecting zombies only.
Heck, let me give you the table of contents. And the chapter icons.
Acknowledgments. 5
Foreword. 7
Chapter 1 – Somalia. 10 (See above for icon)
Chapter 2 – Haradhere … 25
Chapter 3 – Crimea. 37
Chapter 4 – Midley ………… 60
Chapter 5 – London … 73
Chapter 6 – Tumen River ………… 100
Chapter 7 – Myonggan … 131
Chapter 8 – Kimch’aek … 160
Chapter 9 – Washington DC. 193
Chapter 10 – Gary ………… 220
Chapter 11 – Gulf of Mexico … 228
Chapter 12 – Earth Orbit ………… 244
Chapter 13 – Area 52 ………… 264
Chap 14 icon
Chapter 14 – Peoria … 279
Chapter 15 – International Space Station ………… 290
Chapter 16 – London ………… 301
Chapter 17 – Westminster ………… 319
Epilogue 329
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Why Chapter Icons? Juicy Details
First of all, I like them. I had my artist give hints to each chapter in them. So they’re like an Easter Egg within the book.
Second of all, I paid for them. They were part of my illustration contract. So I might as well share them in this blog post.
Thirdly, I’ve never shared some of them before. So they’re part of my juicy details for you in this post.
More to come!
Cool and Juicy Details
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Now some science fiction story fuel in the following article:
Finally, a Cool Martian Video
Enjoy!