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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good story starts with a good first line. In TODAY’s “Cold Open,” authors tease their buzzy upcoming release by revealing and explaining its first line, paragraph or page.

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Teen Vogue, Wattpad to Publish Original Short Stories With Fan Fiction-Style Daily Drops. Read a Preview

Tay Marley, author of Wattpad YA novel that inspired the Tubi movie “Sidelined,” will release her next work in daily chapter drops, available to read for free on Teen Vogue.

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‘Heated Rivalry’ Annotated Scripts Reveal How Shane and Ilya’s First Meeting Was Actually Supposed to Happen

TODAY.com has an exclusive first look at “I’ll Believe In Anything: The Making of Heated Rivalry Season 1,” which features the hit show’s scripts with annotations from creator Jacob Tierney.

32d ago

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Jasmine Guillory’s ‘Dirty Dancing’-Inspired YA Romance Is Dedicated to Her Teenage Self. Read The First Page

Guillory shares how her new novel, out Oct. 6, tackles body image issues and includes nods to “Dirty Dancing” for TODAY’s “Cold Open.”

41d ago

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Veronica Roth Shares First Chapter of New Novel Set in the World of ‘Divergent’

Roth also tells TODAY.com why her therapist was “super excited” by “The Sixth Faction,” the first book in a duology “revisiting” her blockbuster dystopian series.

46d ago

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Lucy Foley Revives Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple For the Character’s First Novel in 50 Years. Read the Prologue

Lucy Foley exclusively shares the prologue to “Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel” with TODAY.com and previews what to expect from the 1950 ski resort-set mystery.

46d ago

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Rebecca Ross Reveals Cover of New Romantic Fantasy, ‘A Bittersweet Spell’

Plus, read an excerpt from Chapter 1, introducing the characters at the center of Ross’ “second chance” romantasy.

47d ago

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Read The First Page of ‘Hollywood, Ending,’ The Book That Made John Green Remember: ‘I Love Writing Stories’

The author tells TODAY.com the novel explores early adulthood, inspired by his own experience feeling, “I’m kind of living the dream, but I’m not sure I’m living my dream.”

49d ago

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Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Exit Party’ Envisions Hope in a U.S. Torn Apart by Civil War. Read the First Page

The “Station Eleven” author says she’s leaning into “this feeling of desperate joy at the end of the world” through her new book.

54d ago

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Elizabeth Acevedo Shares First Page of Novel in Verse, ‘Anger Is Only a Shadow’

“Anger Is Only a Shadow,” out Sept. 15, is inspired by poet Elizabeth Acevedo’s experience working as a teaching artist at a juvenile detention facility.

55d ago

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The Opening Line of Alice Hoffman’s ‘The Witches of Cambridge’ Is Also How It Ends

As “Practical Magic 2” hits theaters, its author Alice Hoffman is introducing the world to two new witches from the 1950s in “The Witches of Cambridge.”

62d ago

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Victoria Aveyard Reveals the Opening Scene of Debut Adult Novel, ‘Tempest’

“Tempest,” out Sept. 8, is the first of a duology set on the fictional Lyrian Sea, inspired by the world of “Pirates of the Caribbean.”