Today I’m wrapping up my series of the 2010 Florida SCBWI Mid-Year Workshop highlights. For those of you who attend conferences, you might already know about First Page sessions. It’s where agents, editors, and authors read the first 250 words of anonymous manuscripts and then give their immediate reactions. This has become one of my favorite sessions because I always learn something that I can apply to my own work. The following are responses and suggestions to First Pages from senior … [Read more...]
First Pages!
June 16, 2009 Leave a Comment
Oooh, I love when editors read first pages of a manuscript. I first had this experience at a Southern Breeze SCBWI conference. At this year's SpringMingle conference, for the first time EVER, my first page was read after submitting several times in past years. Learned a lot! So extra summer blog post is brought to you by Editorial Anonymous who has just posted that First Pages are active again. So go over to the The Anonymati and experience some first page goodness! Or enter a first page … [Read more...]
