Live 1-Hour WorkshopNail the Hook of Your Book: How to Write One Agents Can’t Pass Up
Join Little, Brown senior editor Ruqayyah Daud for a practical one-hour workshop on writing the one-sentence pitch at the heart of your query.
WHEN: Wednesday, 10/28, 12-1pm ET
COST: $39 ($29 early bird with code EARLYBIRD for the first 48 hours)
Agents decide in one sentence whether to keep reading your query. That sentence is your hook.
In this workshop, Little, Brown senior editor Ruqayyah Daud walks you through the questions that separate a hook agents request from one they pass on:
What is a hook, and why do you need one before you query?
What goes into a great hook?
Which mistakes make a hook too vague, misleading or powerless?
How do the right comps make your hook stronger?
Bring a first try at your hook. You’ll leave knowing what’s missing from it and how to fix it.
In this hands-on 1-hour workshop, you'll learn:
What a hook actually is: the definition Ruqayyah uses, and why your hook matters long before you start querying
The ingredients: the elements every strong hook needs, shown on Fourth Wing and Little Women
The gossip test: a quick way to tell whether your idea is big enough to get people talking
The three pitfalls: how hooks go wrong by being too vague, misleading or powerless, and how to fix each one
Comps that help: how to choose comps that strengthen your hook, and the ones that quietly hurt it
Where your hook comes from: how to find what makes your idea stand out, with real case studies
Meet your teacher
Ruqayyah Daud is a senior editor at LBYR and Requited.
She acquires everything from middle grade through New Adult.
Some of her titles include the #1 New York Times bestseller, Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma, the critically acclaimed As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh and the upcoming buzzed about romantasy, Bitten by Jordan Stephanie Gray.
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