Feedback And Reviews
Actionable First Pages Feedback
Jessica was wonderful. She gave specific, actionable feedback on my first 10 pages to help improve them. She also gave praise and answered some of my industry questions. She seems like a wonderful person and the whole experience was delightful.
Six Hundred Seconds of Insight
Hannah Robinson was wonderful to talk with. I enjoyed all six hundred seconds! Would like to have it last longer… but who wouldn’t?

Helpful and Relaxed Critique
It was a great experience. She had some good advice including a great example for a comp book and she sandwiched it nicely with compliments. Overall, it remained professional and yet relaxed. As someone who was pretty nervous going in, I was relieved I felt so at ease. Thanks for a great critique and experience.
Confidence to Keep Querying
Eve Hall was so kind and helpful! She answered all of my questions and gave me the confidence to keep querying.
Spot-On Emotional Depth Tips
Samantha’s suggestions on improving my first page by adding a little more emotional depth were spot-on. I already took her advice and am confident about querying and having my first pages read by other agents.

Excellent and Personalized Advice
My consultation with Valentina was excellent. She had great suggustions specific to me and my situation. Very helpful. It was a real pleasure to talk with her.

A Consummate Professional
Stacey is a consummate professional…the most insightful, valuable 10 minutes of my writing career 🙂

Unrushed and Insightful
It’s incredible how much Em was able to help in 10 minutes! Not only did she give me great general advice as it pertains to query letters’ structure and contents, but she also pointed out specific areas of mine that could be improved and tweaked. She was so informative that she actually covered most of the questions I’d written out in advance to ask, so we had time for me to try and come up with new questions on the fly. I can’t recommend her highly enough to go over your query letter and give insight as to what is or isn’t working as well as how to make it stronger.

Specific and Helpful Manuscript Tweaks
Jessica was super nice and thorough. I didn’t feel like I was rushed, nor that we missed discussing anything. I’m so happy with my experience!

Sharp, Concrete Editing Advice
Jessica was great! She gave me commentary not only on the overall state of my picture book manuscript, but also specific items for me to tweak. She was incredibly helpful, and I highly recommend her!

Spot-On Edits and Suggestions
Amy Bishop was terrific. Very sharp. She gave precise, concrete advice. She’s a very good editor.
And a very nice person. I was very happy with my 10 minutes with her and immediately rewrote my query based on her advice.
I also sent you all a thank you email this morning.
Best to you all,
Sincerely,
Annick de Bellefeuille
Motivating and Clear Query Advice
Megan Barnard was extremely helpful. She got what I’m doing and spotted the bits I’m fond of. Her advice was insightful and clear. I corrected my first page according to her advice and I’m much happier with it. I felt we had a terrific ten minutes and she seemed to be enjoying herself which is a wonderful compliment.
Thank you all for recommending her.
I also sent an email first thing this am to say thank you.
Thank you all at the M.A. Sincerely, Annick de Bellefeuille

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