Writers have sent in some great Opening Lines in the past two contests:

Here are the first two winners:
“The next time someone wants me to keep a secret, I’ll do something easy instead–like baptize a cat.” Mike Boyd

“Like all my birthday parties, my own funeral is just plain boring.” Shelli

The rules for the June contest are simple: Write a compelling opening to a YA novel. It can be a few lines or a paragraph.

The prize is a signed copy of Sliding on the Edge.

Hope to see at The Write Game soon with the winning entry.

About The Author

A native Californian, C. Lee McKenzie has always been a writer, but to eat and make contributions to children's college funds, she's also been a university lecturer and administrator. Lee's written and published non-fiction articles, both in her field of Linguistics and Inter-cultural Communication, and in general readership magazines. For five years Lee wrote, edited, and published a newsletter for U.S. university professors who were managing global classroom issues.  Read more about C. Lee McKenzie.

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