This week’s challenge comes from Sarah Hegger. She’s so clever!
We’re supposed to share a great opening line and tell you why we like it, and then share the opening line to your newest WIP.
I Sure you scooted over here from the awe-inspiring S.C. Mitchell’s blog. Steve always has something witty to share!
Though historical romances have changed dramatically since that book was published as the first great American romance and changed the genre forever, I still reflect on the book with the same tenderness one might the memory of a first crush or kiss.
Here’s the opening line to that epic novel:
“Somewhere in the world, time no doubt whistled by on taut and widespread wings, but here in the English countryside it plodded slowly, painfully, as if it trod the rutted road that stretched across the moor on blistered feet.”
Poetic and picturesque, and perhaps bordering on purple prose just a wee bit, but hey, I like purple sometimes.
Now, I’m supposed to share the opening line of my newest Regency which happens to be, Wagers Gone Awry, Conundrums of the Misses Culpeppers Book 1
Had I been born under an evil star or cursed from my first breath?
Okay, let’s head over to Veronica Forand’s and see what wonderfulness she has posted.
oooo The Flame and the Flower! I LOVE Kathleen E. Woodiwiss!
Me too! I still have the original book.