Andrea Brown, Andrea Brown Literary Agency Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.” “I’m not a fan of prologues, preferring to find myself in the midst of a moving plot on page one rather than being kept outside of it, or eased into it.”
“A sci-fi novel that spends the first two pages describing the strange landscape.” “I dislike opening scenes that you think are real, then the protagonist wakes up. Why did I just spend all this time with this character? I feel cheated.” “I don’t like it when the main character dies at the end of Chapter One. And they’re the ones who can tell us which Chapter One approaches are overused and cliché, as well as which techniques just plain don’t work.īelow (you'll) find a smattering of feedback from experienced literary agents on what they hate to see (in) the first pages of a writer’s submission. They’re the ones on the front lines, sifting through inboxes and slush piles. No one reads more prospective novel beginnings than literary agents.
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