Instructor: BJ Daniels. This is a hands-on workshop. During the week we will use six different methods to write that all-important first paragraph of your book.

      If you’re like me, you take a book off the shelf at the store, open it to Chapter One and read the first couple of paragraphs. I can usually tell by the writing style and the way the author started the story whether I want to read the book.

      I think this proves how important it is to grab the reader by the throat in those first paragraphs.

      So that is what this workshop is about – how to hook a reader or editor in that first paragraph and amp up the suspense so they can’t stop reading.

  B.J. Daniels wrote her first book after a career as an award-winning newspaper journalist and author of 37 published short stories.

      That first book, ODD MAN OUT, received a 4 ½ star review from Romantic Times magazine and went on to be nominated for Best Intrigue for that year.

      Since then she was won numerous awards including a career achievement award for romantic suspense and numerous nominations and awards for best book.

      Daniels lives in Montana with her husband, Parker, and two Springer Spaniels, Spot and Jem. When she isn’t writing, she snowboards, camps, boats and plays tennis.

      Daniels is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Thriller Writers, Kiss of Death and Romance Writers of America.

      To contact her, write: B.J. Daniels, P.O. Box 1173, Malta, MT 59538 or email her at bjdaniels@mtintouch.net Check out her webpage and blog at www.bjdaniels.com

      Daniels latest series, Whitehorse: Winchester Ranch, a six-book mystery series with Harlequin Intrigue, runs April, May, June, Oct., Nov. and Dec. 2010.