The First Ten Pages of Your Novel: What An Agent Or Publisher Really Wants

Everything your pages need to capture any reader

Sherryl Clark - writer, editor, poet.
The Startup
Published in
4 min readMay 20, 2020

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If you’ve written a novel and are in the trenches, querying agents (and maybe then publishers), there are two things that will send a ripple of fear down your spine. The fear is about getting it wrong. Because you only have two chances. Your query letter has…

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Sherryl Clark - writer, editor, poet.
The Startup

Writer, editor, book lover — I've published many children's books and three crime novels for adults so far. I edit other people's fiction and poetry.