How to begin your novel: Start with the action!

How should you begin your novel? The best way is to start with the action!

This is a concept that’s taken memanystories to understand. When writing my first draft ofOne Last Letter, I included a flashback scene that showed Jesse and Evelyn as young teenagers. They were making a promise to one another to stay together forever. It was a great scene and I loved it and then when I was editing with Crimson Romance’s brilliant editor Julie Sturgeon, she said: “This has gotta go.”

To be honest, the...