First Line — The Last Horseman

New Cover!

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In honor of the copies arriving this week of The Last Horseman, with its new cover and improved layout, today’s First Line is from that book.

This line comes from the prologue, and it starts the scene in the middle of an action. Not action, per se, but at least something is happening. It is followed with a scene in which the wife cares for, and speaks with, her dying husband.

As first lines go, it is functional, for sure. Nothing to knock your socks off, but at least you’re there. I say… C+.

You?

Now, if you don’t count prologue openers as first lines, well, then chapter one starts thusly:

“It isn’t right,” Detective Randall Cooper muttered to absolutely no one. “It’s not fuckin’ right.”

How do you grade that one?
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This book was suposed to be part of a series, but I haven’t got around to the sequels yet. No worries, as this one stands alone just fine. But Sandy banks is a fascinating enough character to warrant at least one more book.

Old Cover

The new cover designed by Zach McCain replaces the old one from Carl Graves. It much more closely fits the tone and the story of the book. Not that the Graves cover doesn’t have cool look, it just isn’t as on point as the new one.

Graves does good work — he designed the cover for Waist Deep, which I love. And he’s done a ton of other great covers, too. Really, the fault was mine in not pushing for something at least closer to the new cover. He, like most cover designers, was very open to feedback. I was fairly new at self-publishing at the time, so I failed a little here.

Anyway, many readers have said that The Last Horseman is one of my fastest paced books. I certainly wrote it to move along quickly, and to be economical. It’s not a long book,so that probably helps, too.

I do know it has been a book that when some people who knew me (other members of my old police department, for example) and suffered from the contempt of familiarity (“he can’t be a real writer — he’s not on the NY Times bestseller list, and besides, I know him”) read this book, the reaction was often….”Wow, that was pretty good… like a real book.”

So if that’s you…maybe start here? I mean, it’s got a snazzy new cover and everything.
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