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At our Roundtable Discussion last week, it was great talking with Jane Friedman, contributing editor of Writers Digest, about the different kinds of red flags that she's noticed in manuscripts. Jane talked about "the usual suspects" in manuscripts--the need to "show" as well as "tell," consistency with tenses and point of view, and being careful about too much back story arriving in a prologue or at the beginning of a book. "The agent or editor need to be fully engaged in the first … [Read more...]
