Get First Pages Right

There's a super interview on CHASING THE CRAZIES Blog with agent Bridget Smith of Dunham Literary Agency. Her insights are right on. A few tips:

    * Common first paragraphs should NOT include dreams, eating breakfast, whatever you see in your head, middle of action when we don't know the characters

    *  the query has to be stellar, and is her biggest motivator when requesting the MS.

    *  what resonates with an agent as she reads your first five

    *  A few things to make her fall in love with your entire MS

Bridget is currently accepting queries for middle grade, young adult, and adult fiction, especially fantasy and science fiction, historical fiction, and contemporary.