In 2015, my mom started a blog called “The First Two Pages.” As an author, my mom often thought about…
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First Two Pages of “I Gotta Be Me” in Where Crime Never Sleeps: Murder New York Style 4
Lindsay A. Curcio This month, The First Two Pages continues to feature posts by some of the authors who contributed…
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Catherine Maiorisi This month, The First Two Pages continues to feature posts by some of the authors who contributed stories…
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Rona Bell This month, The First Two Pages continues to feature posts by some of the authors who contributed stories…
Continue reading →First Two Pages of “Every Picture Tells A Story” in Where Crime Never Sleeps: Murder New York Style 4
Cathi Stoler This month, The First Two Pages continues to feature posts by some of the authors who contributed stories…
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Roslyn Siegel This month, The First Two Pages continues to feature posts by some of the authors who contributed stories…
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Triss Stein In September and October, The First Two Pages features posts by some of the authors who contributed stories…
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Elizabeth Zelvin In September and October, The First Two Pages features posts by some of the authors who contributed stories…
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The First Two Pages of “Make Me Beautiful”
by Karen Pullen I work on my stories for a long time. This 3500-word story, “Make Me Beautiful”, was no…
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The First Two Pages: A Golden Eclipse
Debra H. Goldstein Normally, I begin short stories with a clever line of dialogue or a dead body. My goal…
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Margaret S. Hamilton I love eclipses and meteor showers. A few years ago, we watched the Transit of Venus through…
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KB Inglee If you are writing a short story, your first two pages are a significant percentage of the whole.…
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Melissa H. Blaine (The First Two Pages is devoting August to celebrating the release of Day of the Dark, a…
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Nupur Tustin As a writer, I take very seriously Horace’s advice to begin a story in media res. If this…
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The First Two Pages of Ruined Stones
Eric Reed Ruined Stones (Poisoned Pen Press, July 2017) is our second Grace Baxter mystery. While this novel is set…
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