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Welcome to guest blogger Molly Ker Hawn of the Bent Agency based in New York. Molly, who lives in London and works with authors in the UK and America, is on the look out for YA and middle grade fiction. The agency asks to see the first ten pages of manuscripts so I asked Molly for the ten most common mistakes she finds in those ten pages - so you can avoid them.
I get about a hundred
A really useful and to the point post. I will definitely be sharing this with my students. Interestingly (to me)several of these could be applied to assignments too!
Another great post, full of sage advice!
Great post, Maureen! Many thanks to Molly for this; it is so helpful to understand the thinking and the process underpinning an agency. And how nice to hear how much Molly appreciates an author's efforts!
Extremely helpful advice. Thank you!
Really good advice. Thanks for sharing it. Great post.
All great advice!
Thanks for all the great tips in this post!
I am so printing this out to remind me! Such handy great tips - thank you!!! Take care<br />x
Great post, thank you to Molly and Maureen. Only problem now is do I send my fantasy m.s to Molly or not?? Decisions,decisions...
Send, Lorraine, don't second guess. Yours may just be the fantasy that turns Molly back on to the genre.
Thanks Jackie. Now I must make sure I take it all!
Molly does make some excellent points doesn't she. It must be disheartening on some days.
Thanks, Addy. And Molly is very supportive to SCBWI too.
Glad you found it useful, Joolze.
It's like a pre-sending checklist isn't it!
Thanks, fellow funEverser!
Thanks for reading, Andrea.
My wall is filling up with good advice now, I may have to move.
Really great post!
Thank you so much for this post. I will be sharing it with our Children's Book Hub Facebook Group, and with the Children's Book Hub.
That was great. All her points make sense.
A terrific post that I definitely will be printing & rereading as I write & revise that YA fantasy (it does NOT begin with the heroine awakening & there is no mirror in sight, I'm relieved to announce). Thanks so much to Molly & Maureen.
This is GREAT! So clear and straight forward. I'm the new resource person for my local writer's group and this is going to the top of my list.
Loved to see this post. Now I just need to make sure I can follow all the advice in my manuscript.