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Lynn Wiese Sneyd

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I'm a Midwestern transplanted in Tucson, AZ, now having a love affair with the delicate strength and beauty of the Sonoran Desert. One of these days, I might even embrace horseback riding, and have a real reason to invest in a cowboy boots. But for now, tennies are a good thing.

I own LWS Literary Services, an agency specializing in writing query letters and book proposals, editing manuscripts, and conducting book publicity campaigns. We work with writers of fiction and non-fiction. Being an author myself, I know what the publishing journey entails - time, tea, chocolate, rewrites, coffee, more time, patience, persistence, and more coffee. My goal is to help make the trek from penning that first paragraph to promoting the published book as...more



It's all about the first paragraph, the first page, the first five pages.


Any literary agent will tell you that. You may submit a manuscript of five hundred pages, but if the writing in those first few pages fails to meet expectations, you will be banned to the slush pile.


And who wants to be slushed?


Not I, said the writer, going back to that first paragraph for what feels like the hundred mi...

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