Hook, Line, and Stinker
Randy: “Lollipops and cotton candy rock!!! Woohoo!! Yay!”
RB and Computer: “………….”
Randy: “Well? What do you think? Awesome right?”
RB: “That is the hook you wrote to put in my query letters?”
Randy: “Great isn’t it?!?”
Computer: “Warning: That hook is terrible, Randy.”
Randy: “What’s wrong with it?”
RB: “First of all, it has nothing to do with my book: Lollipops and cotton candy rock?! Are you high?”
Randy: “I think’s it’s perfect! The hook is supposed to grab the reader’s attention, right?”
Computer: “Affirmative: But-“
Randy: “And it’s supposed to be short and sweet, right?”
RB: “True, but-“
Randy: “Does it not jump out at you?!”
RB: “In all the wrong ways. It screams, IDIOT. I am trying to get my book recognized and published, not laughed at and thrown in the trash.”
Randy: *pout* “…it doesn’t scream idiot…”
Computer: “Correction: It screams inexperienced, childish, and unprofessional.”
Randy: “I like idiot better.”
RbH
Tagged: Angel vs. Demon, cotton candy, hook, literary agents, lollipops, query letter, R B Holbrook, writing
