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Best Hook: It should dazzle the soul's curiosity with an earnest yearning for resolution.
Write the best hook you can come up with. Use previous ones to see if it's solid or make up a new one to test your creative ability to pull in a reader. Any genre. I am a believer that a good hook can and should pull in all readers regardless of their preferences. It should dazzle the soul's curiosity with an earnest yearning for resolution.
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George Blurth is a thirteen-year-old loner. In one brief moment, a confrontation with the school bully changes everything in his life. When he is unable to forgive and forget, George retaliates, which results in an incident that gains national attention. He and his alcoholic father run away.

But life has other plans for George. Months afterward, he is confronted with a far deadlier incident. George barely survives an attack by Hank Calner, a serial killer. Believing he himself a fugitive, George is reluctant to go to the police.

In Hank’s mind, the monster’s deranged hidden secrets won’t allow him to spare the boy. He sets out to stalk and torment George. Hank plays with the boy like a large cat playing with a mouse before killing its prey. However, George is not prey. He has hidden dangerous secrets of his own.

It is Los Angeles in the 1960’s, a turbulent decade of assassinations, riots, and war.