Me: What are you looking for right now in fiction submissions and not getting? Are there any subjects or genres that are near and dear to your heart? And on the flip side, what are you getting too much of? I have so much to read so anything that I don’t care about is going to get put aside. It’s stuck with me (I say it on panels now) because it’s so true. At any point I’m not invested in wanting to know what comes next, I’ll stop reading.” If the second line doesn’t keep me hooked, I won’t read the third. “If you don’t have me hooked in the first line, I won’t read the second line. But I have to say that I was on a panel a few years ago with a number of agents and one of them said: Suzie: If I don’t connect to the main character I won’t get to page 50-that’s the big one for me. Me: What are three things that elicit automatic rejections from you when reading the first 50 pages of a manuscript? Within a week of the internship I knew that I didn’t want to work in textbooks anymore-I wanted to be an agent and work in fiction. I took an unpaid internship instead just to get a feel for publishing and ended up at FinePrint Literary Management. But the economy had just taken a downturn and most companies weren’t hiring so I couldn’t find a job. I had just left teaching and was hoping to get into textbook publishing since I really loved curriculum planning. Thank you so much, Suzie, for being here today! Today, we’re interviewing Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc.
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