Authors if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book. “This is a book about how magic disappears.” - ThreadSky

vox-magica.bsky.social • 23 days ago

Authors if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.

“This is a book about how magic disappears.”

Authors if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.

"Catastrophe is never convenient.”

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"In 1806, or so goes one peculiar version of the tale, there was, in the Bodleian Library of Oxford, a regular library patron of the most unusual sort."

mithos343.bsky.social•22 days ago

Does a short story I'm working on atm count

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

💯

mithos343.bsky.social•21 days ago

Mollie Kirk wanted to tell her therapist, who today was Sophia, that she never seemed to be able to get a read on Dean.

devoretext.bsky.social•22 days ago

“Ancient historians were not known for their modesty.”

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

😂😂😂😂😂

devoretext.bsky.social•22 days ago

…but look how Eusebius described himself:

devoretext.bsky.social•22 days ago

hltn.bsky.social•21 days ago

Aaaand... count me duly fished in by this, both for the subject and the style. Yowsa.

vox-magica.bsky.social•21 days ago

thank you!! i hope some other sentences are good too, but this is the one i feel most proud of.

hltn.bsky.social•20 days ago

I haven't -yet - had the opportunity to enjoy your writing at full force - but even judging on this feed alone, I'd say it's a rather safe bet that one of two of the other sentences might also be, you know, ok. 😀

Looking forward to seeing pre-order details.

vox-magica.bsky.social•20 days ago

that's very kind, thank you. i'm also looking forward to pre-order details, lol. it might take some time; there's a big backlog at the publisher. i hope it's sooner than i expect though; i could use a pleasant surprise, as i'm sure all of us could.

milydunbar.bsky.social•22 days ago

That's a great first line

vox-magica.bsky.social•21 days ago

thanks; i am rather happy with it, and that’s rare enough a feeling that i want to take a small victory lap!

boop987.bsky.social•22 days ago

Swept up.

rhigarthjones.bsky.social•22 days ago

DAMN that's such a cool opening line

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

RIGHT? The book’s called _Smoke & Mirrors_. I really crushed that opening line!

rhigarthjones.bsky.social•22 days ago

Oh *yes*, extremely into it. So excited to read it!

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

thanks so much! i hope some of the other lines are good too. 😂

rhigarthjones.bsky.social•22 days ago

I feel like there are some quite good lines here and there in mine (not announced yet) but not the opening one.

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yay!! I love it when I read a particularly good sentence and I can’t wait to read yours!

stephaniecobb33.bsky.social•22 days ago

Crap. My first sentence is not in your league: “On June 11, 1963, three hundred Buddhist monks wearing traditional robes walked through
the streets of Saigon toward the Presidential Palace.”

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

i need to know how that leads into the ancient stuff, and isn’t that what makes a good first line!?
when reader needs to know what’s next?

stephaniecobb33.bsky.social•22 days ago

I'm still tinkering with the intro, but I'd love your thoughts on it at some point.

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

you know i love *everything* you write! i'm always up for whatever you'd like me to look at; it's like christmas in my inbox! 💜

stephaniecobb33.bsky.social•21 days ago

Merry Christmas! 🎄

vox-magica.bsky.social•21 days ago

you know i already opened the file, right?

get ready for my special brand of comments: thoughtful comments & suggestions, but expressed mostly in exclamation points and all caps. 🤣

andytobo.bsky.social•22 days ago

“His father’s stolen blessing in hand, the young Jacob, not yet a patriarch, lights out for the territories”

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

oh, that’s really nice! ahhhh, all my favorite people are such wordsmiths and it’s giving me so much joy! i am a total nerd and i love what we can do with words.

erinbartram.bsky.social•22 days ago

🤩

andytobo.bsky.social•22 days ago

The more recent one is "One could be forgiven for thinking that ancient Israel and ancient Greece, like certain other famous couples, have grown a little more distant with time"

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

oh man, you’re really good at this! we need a dedicated workshop on mic drop first lines at SBL. i need to level up!!

andytobo.bsky.social•22 days ago

I always say, you need a hook

drkatieturner.bsky.social•22 days ago

“In the early spring of 2004, I sat in a movie theatre in Times Square feeling increasingly disquieted.”

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

oohhhhh? i definitely want to find out why!!

drkatieturner.bsky.social•22 days ago

I open with my first experience of a Passion play.
If I ever actually finish my manuscript you might read it one day 🫠

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

oh, i definitely want to read this now!! please keep us posted!

carrietipton.bsky.social•22 days ago

what an opening!!

vox-magica.bsky.social•22 days ago

thank you! i am very proud of these few words. sometimes you can write a whole thing without liking any of the sentences, but i really like this one. 💜

ronhogan.bsky.social•23 days ago

Well, THAT’S a book I want to read.

vox-magica.bsky.social•23 days ago

i mean, it might go downhill from there, who knows? but i’m very happy with that first line, and the last one too (can’t remember that one, though).

ronhogan.bsky.social•23 days ago

So when do we get to see it? 😀

vox-magica.bsky.social•23 days ago

2025, but nothing more specific yet. the publisher’s backlog is massive, i’m told.

i’m trying to manage my anxiety. going great. 🙃

ronhogan.bsky.social•23 days ago

Well, when the time comes, 🥂!

vox-magica.bsky.social•23 days ago

💜

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