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Lynn Wiese Sneyd

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born

Milwaukee, WI

gender

female

website

http://www.lwsliteraryservices.com

twitter username

LWSLiterary

genre

Health, Mind & Body, Parenting & Families

member since

April 2009

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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

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First Paragraphs

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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Books by Lynn Wiese Sneyd

Average rating: 4.25 · 8 ratings · 3 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Holistic Parenting: Raising Children to a New Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	How Happy Families Happen: Six Steps to Bringing Emotional and Spiritual Health Into Your Home by Audrey Ricker, Lynn Wiese Sneyd (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Healthy Solutions: A Guide to Simple Healing and Healthy Wisdom by David N. Russell, Lynn Wiese Sneyd (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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Lynn Wiese Sneyd is currently reading:

Wild Horses of the West: History and Politics of America's Mustangs

by J. Edward de Steiguer

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Dec 29, 2011 03:57pm

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The Barbarian Nurseries

by Héctor Tobar

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