Submit your query letter and first 5 pages for critique!

Your stories first words could be just as important as your entire query letter! Sometimes agents will go directly to the first pages to see what your writing looks like. In this live webinar, Katie Shea Boutillier will go step-by-step to demonstrate the importance of strong first pages, focusing on voice, tone, mood, setting, urgency, pace, description, dialogue and the natural approach to your characters. Register today and strengthen your first pages!

All registrants are invited to submit your query letter and first 5 pages for critique. Please wait until after the live webinar date to submit your critique material. This allows you to make changes to query letter and first 5 pages based on the presentation and will ensure you receive the most helpful critique possible. All submitted queries and first 5 pages are guaranteed a written critique by Literary Agent Katie Shea Boutillier.

•	The importance of first pages in query submissions
•	What agents and editor expect to see in first pages
•	Tips to world-building, creating a setting we will not want to leave
•	Pace and urgency is needed in first pages - what does this mean?

•	Writers at any stage of querying
•	Writers having difficulties with where their project might start
•	Writers looking for encouragement (for writers who might be receiving rejections)
•	Writers who are looking for advice in editorial

Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 1:00 PM EDT

$89.99

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Instructor: Katie Shea Boutillier
Katie Shea Boutillier joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2011. She is the Rights Director handling the agency's translation and audio rights, and selected film/TV and electronic rights. Katie is committed to help achieve her clients' long-term career goals.

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