The First Line . . .

So I'm pondering today the First Line. In all those writing classes I took a million years ago, they used to tell me that the First Line Has to Grab People. Kind of like the opening hook of a pop song, right? Or the topic sentence of an essay, or the opening line of a speech.

So I've been kind of reminiscing about the first line of each of my books. Not just the first sentence, but sort of the opening image, right?

It forms (for me) an interesting reflection of my career.

In the order of...