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Nailing your manuscript's opening: Introducing our opening pages intensive!

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Feb 24, 2023
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Though I’m closed to this level of consulting at the moment, for a while now I’ve been running something called “The Query Doula” where I look at writers’ query packages— their query letters and first five pages—with the aim to diagnose trouble spots in the entire manuscript from these six pages.

If you’re wondering how I can tell what might be wrong (an…

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