Grab them! How to Seduce an Agent or Editor into Reading Beyond the First Five Pages with Editor Jennifer Miller (aka Jennifer Haymore) from Samhain Publishing
Agents and editors are overworked and busy. Oftentimes when they open a manuscript, they’re looking for a reason to reject it, and once they find it, they won’t read on. It’s a sad truth, but industry professionals often can’t take the time to read more than a chapter or so before deciding to reject a book. On the other hand, if agents and editors feel excited about the beginning of a manuscript and compelled to read on, they are making a time commitment to the writer–a crucial first step in taking on a new author.
This workshop will offer authors tips on how to revise their manuscripts in order to keep agents and editors reading beyond those first several pages and keep them hungry for more. It will cover deep editing and shallow editing, tricks of the trade to make your writing more addictive, and how agents and editors learn to assess (most often accurately) a manuscript based on the first few pages.
BIO:
Jennifer Miller has lived in sunny Southern California ever since she earned her master’s degree in education from UCLA, but she is half Northern (Canadian) and half Southern girl by blood. After working in jobs ranging from investment sales to teaching to acting on stage, Jennifer finally settled into working with books—romantic fiction in particular. She has been with Samhain since early 2007.
Jennifer enjoys all romances with likeable, interesting characters, lots of action, and loads of sexual tension. She is a self-proclaimed “conflict junkie” – her favorite books all contain powerful, seemingly unable-to-overcome conflicts. She especially loves books that make her sigh with pleasure at the end and believe in happily ever afters. She is a sucker for everything romantic and has a particular fondness for historicals and paranormals with shifters.
Jennifer is also Jennifer Haymore, the national bestselling author of A HINT OF WICKED, A TOUCH OF SCANDAL, A SEASON OF SEDUCTION, and the new Donovan Sisters series published by Grand Central Publishing. She holds degrees in Computer Science and Education and has held various jobs from bookselling to teaching inner-city children to acting, but her favorite place to be has always been with her head in a book. You can learn more about Jennifer at her website: www.jenniferhaymore.com.
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
10:15AM at Azusa City Library @ 729 N. Dalton Ave., Azusa, CA 91702
Annual membership with EVA is only $15 and $3 per month meeting fees. With your membership, you receive the benefit of participating in the critique group which meets directly after our monthly meetings.
Please join us, and feel free to bring a friend (or two, or three).
Remember, guests are welcome to attend their FIRST EVA meeting free!