We asked John M. Cusick, Vice President and Agent at Folio Literary Management, to join us to discuss his class, Great First Lines. We have a great deal of fun talking about common mistakes, finding the right submission list, and what keeps an agent reading–and why.
This Q&A comes with a recorded, edited classs which is highly recommended (but not required!). Click below to view that first.
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About the Instructor
John Cusick
John M. Cusick is a Senior Vice President and literary agent with Folio Jr. / Folio Literary Management, representing a diverse list of New York Times bestsellers and award winners including Julie Murphy, Joan He, Laura Sebastian, Christian McKay Heidicker, and Abdi Nazemian. He represents fiction for kids, teens, and adults, and is also the author of the YA novels GIRL PARTS and CHERRY MONEY BABY (Candlewick Press), as well as the middle-grade duology DIMENSION WHY: How to Save the Universe Without Really Trying (HarperCollins). You can find him online at https://www.foliojr.com/john-cusick.
Send the books kids will sneak/steal/borrow in secret. Those personal, dangerous, life-saving stories. Genres: Children’s, Middle Grade, Picture Books, YA, author-illustrators. No adult works.