Thoughts from Picture Book Peek #2

After this round of critiques, including my Take the Dare, Show You Care critique, I think I've hit on a good number. Three or four manuscripts per Peek Week feels about right.

Some of you may wonder why not more. The answer - they take a ton of time.

The initial read through and text markup is quite fast. And if that's all I was doing, I could turn them around in less than an hour. But often, as I read, I sense that something isn't working. Nothing is more frustrating than to have a reader simply