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065I – The First Five Pages: An Interview with Laura Drake
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Award-winning author Laura Drake shares with us what she's learned about making the first five pages of your novel the absolute best they can be from her years working with an editor in traditional publishing. She's currently writing for Grand Central.
Among the tips she offers:
People come to books for the characters
Great plots without great characters might have remained unsold books
Hint at the character's backstory just enough so it raises questions in the reader's mind
Hint at the character himself so that readers begin to care right away - who is he…
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