March Workshop with Lit Agent Lynnette Novak and Author/Editor Heather Smith Meloche

Our March Workshop kicked off on Saturday, March 3rd at noon EST. We hosted a Twitter chat Wednesday, March 7th for participating past, present, and future to chat with mentors and agent. If you missed the chat, stop by #1st5pages hashtag to answers to the revision questions!

The First Five Pages Workshop is here to help writers find their manuscript's best possible opening with the help of two of our permanent author mentors and a featured guest author. The Workshop runs over the course of three consecutive weeks. In the final week, a literary agent will review the pitch and final draft of the pages. Not only will the agent provide notes, they will also offer a partial request and critique for at least one selected winner.

And that's not all! The workshop is not just for the writers who have submitted manuscripts. For any writer, seeing how each manuscript evolves with the help of our mentoring authors and literary agent can be an unparalleled learning experience in how publishing really works and how professionals and readers read. 

Once our participants are selected, the links below will be updated throughout the workshop to let you read the comments and see the transformation on each of the workshop manuscripts: what worked, what didn't work, and why. This page will always have the most recent workshop displayed with additional workshops linked below.  Follow along with the workshop! Additional workshops are also available in chronological order on the site sidebar.

Guest Mentors

Heather Smith Meloche,  Author of RIPPLE

Literary Agent Lynnette Novak  of The Seymour Agency

Workshop Entries

Evren by Loie Dunn
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Mentors: Heather Smith Meloche, Heather Petty, and Candace Ganger
       Original Submission with Comments
       First Revision with Comments
       Final Revision with Comments
       Agent's Comments

The Guardian's Oath by Sophie Edwards
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Mentors: Heather Smith Meloche, Lisa Gail Green and Wendy Spinale
      Original Submission with Comments
      First Revision with Comments
      Final Revision with Comments
     Agent's Comments

Van Helsing's Blood by Charles Femia
Genre: Middle Grade Urban Fantasy
Mentors: Heather Smith Meloche, Ronald L. Smith, and S.A. Larsen
       Original Submission with Comments
       First Revision with Comments
       Final Revision with Comments
       Agent Comments

Time and Again by Sanyukta Thakare
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Mentors: Heather Smith Meloche, S.M. Parker, and Stasia Kehoe
       Original Submission with Comments
       First Revision with Comments
       Final Revision with Comments
       Agent Comments

Casey Grimes and the Sentry Oak by AJ Vanderhorst
Genre: Upper Middle Grade
Mentors: Heather Smith Meloche, Beth Turley, and Rob Vlock
      Original Submission with Comments
      First Revision with Comments
      Final Revision with Comments
      Agent's Comments

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Previous Workshops

• February 2018 Workshop with Lit Agent Laura Crockett and Author/Editor Kelley Armstrong
• January 2018 Workshop with Lit Agent Abby Saul and Author/Editor Christina June
• November 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Alec Shane and Author/Editor Robin Constantine
• October 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Kaitlyn Johnson and Author/Editor Amy Dominy
• September 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Lauren Spieller and Author/Editor Kate Brauning
• July 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Gabrielle Piraino and Author Laura Williams McCaffrey 
• June 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Connor Eck and Author Becky Wallace 
• May 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Hillary Jacobson and Author Kit Allow 
• April 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Justin Wells and Author Jennifer Longo 
• March 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Wendi Gu and Author Catrina Burgess 
• February 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Kristy Hunter and Author Kelly Barson 
• January 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Lauren Spieller and Author Shea Berkley 

      (Use sidebar links for earlier workshops)
        

Enter Your Own First Five Pages    

Interested in participating yourself? See here. But even if your own manuscript isn't in the workshop, seeing how the manuscripts evolve over three weeks with the help of our mentoring authors and literary agent can help you make HUGE leaps forward with your own manuscript.