Margaret Duarte

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How to Grab Them In Your First 2000 Words

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As a follow-up to She Writes first-ever “We Love New Novelists!” contest, literary agents Sally Wofford-Girand and Eleanor Jackson join editor Sara Weiss and She Writes’ Founder Kamy Wicoff on Blog Talk Radio to discuss that all-important question for any first-time author: how do you grab your reader’s attention in the first 2000 words?

Using the five winners of the contest as examples, but drawing widely on their deep experience in publishing, the panelists will give tips, advice and guidance invaluable to all those with a manuscript in need of a readership.

For Eleanor, Sally and Sara’s bios, click here. To read the winning entries that grabbed the judges, click here.

Listen to Internet radio with She Writes on Blog Talk Radio.

Thank you to She Writes for sharing examples of “how to grab them” with us all.

As always, thanks for stopping by,

About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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