If you don't catch your readers' attention on the first page of your book, in the first paragraph, you're in trouble. Luckily, grabbing them from the very beginning isn't hard to do with these 4 proven techniques to open your book with a hook.

In this episode, I also correct and clarify a point I made in episode 65 about publishing hardcover books.

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