Keeping Agents Reading
Posted by: Woman@Heart on: March 5, 2014
The goal of every novelist is to keep the reader reading. But before you can achieve that goal, you must keep the agent reading.
Boring hooks. Misspelled words. Info dumps. One-dimensional characters.
You’ll be enlightened, surprised, maybe even shocked in this Adventures in YA blog post “Five Agents Share What Makes Them Stop Reading Sample Pages.”
–Claire Yezbak Fadden
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March 6, 2014 at 1:46 am
Thanks for the post, Claire. These reminders the agents present will help me when I rework the beginning of my novel next week. 🙂