Nailing Your First 5 Pages with Tracy J. Jones

Resident Editor and Former Professional Speechwriter, Tracy J. Jones, offers you her tips, tricks, and tools to make the best first impression in your first five pages. 

These critical first pages are a perfect bite-sized appetizer that sets the stage for your entire memoir while leaving your readers hungry for more.

By looking at the beginnings of popular memoirs, Tracy will provide a roadmap to crafting an introduction that excites and entices your readers not just to buy your book but keep reading until the very end.

Topics include:

• The different type of introductions
• Grounding your reader
• Creating tension
• Being bold and doing it quickly
• What’s your question, goal or want?
• Starting your character arc
• Setting the tone and voice of your memoir
• How to use a flashback as your hook
• Demonstrating that the reader is in good hands

Please join the SDMWA in this interactive and supportive class to make your first five pages a compelling calling card.