Apr 19 2008
You Had Me at Word One
Benjamin LeRoy is the founder of Bleak House Books says: An author’s job is to write something undeniably great from Word One. There are no excuses. There is no wait-and-see policy for things that cross my desk. Either the book has it from the opening Once Upon a Time or it doesn’t. And in seven years of reading submissions I’ve learned that if I don’t get moved on page one, I’m not going to get moved on page one hundred. Read the rest of the article.
I totally agree with LeRoy.