Showing posts with label teaser chapters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaser chapters. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Thoughts on Teaser Chapters


By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

I had a deadline Sunday that I met just in the nick of time. :)  It was a deadline for a teaser chapter—the first chapter in my current WIP that will go into the back of the December Penguin release.
I realized that I treat teaser chapters differently, depending on the situation.  I actually sweated a bit over this one, which was probably why I ran so close to deadline.  That’s because my editor asked for this chapter (with a September 1 deadline) before I actually started writing the book or even the outline.  That means that I wrote the chapter with an eye for marketing.