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  • Lisa Unger prologue update

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    Ace Baker
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    Just thought I’d update you with a tweet I got from Lisa Unger herself, New York Times bestselling author of 12 novels in 26 languages, who already commented about a post I made about PROLOGUES just yesterday:   Ok, so you’ve been warned by the lady herself (who’s a champ for responding so quickly considering her busy schedule!).…

  • Prologue Trick from Lisa Unger and Michael Slade and…

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    Ace Baker
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    To some editors and many readers that “P” word, “prologue,” is almost a swear word. Piles of readers skip over prologues to get to “the meat” of the story. Some editors HATE them. But…what if your story needs one? Here’s a strategy used by Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies: October 25th, 1972 There were times…