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I had a good question on how you find a first reader, and what is the difference between a first reader and a workshop. First it would be important to understand what a first reader does, so let me start there. -- A first reader reads your story when you feel it ...
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First Readers
Kristine Kathryn Rusch — My husband, Dean Wesley Smith, has a great blog on the importance of first readers. You can check it out here. He wrote it on the eve of our Master Class, which begins tonight. We’ll be teaching professional writers at a crossroads in their careers for the next two weeks. It’s a lot of work for both of us, so I’m not sure how much I’ll post. But I’ll try, especially workshop oriented stuff.

October 7, 2008 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — Here are some things to keep you preoccupied: BookEnds, LLC has literary agent Jessica Faust talk about The Way I Read [queries and submissions]. In the event that you're working on a novel, The Agony Column has a podcast feature interview: Writing 101, Lesson 1: Laurie R. King on Revising a Novel. Dean Wesley Smith discusses finding First Readers and what they are. Missed Archon? Rich Horton brings us up to speed: Day (1, 2). Erik Mona talks about pulp writer Henry Kuttner ...

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