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Posted on May 11, 2017March 3, 2026

Top Reasons Readers will close your book.

While recently attending the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, I sat in on a workshop that gave out this information. I felt that it was valuable enough to pass along. 1) Nothing happens in the opening pages. No one will keep reading about a bunch of characters that are going nowhere, or pages …

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