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Great feedback and highly encouraging.
John gave great feedback and was incredibly encouraging! I would absolutely work with him again! Highly recommend!
Elisabeth Aikins
November 30, 2020
Honestly, this was invaluable.
Kiana walked me through my query, almost line by line. Her critique was thoughtful, specific, and kind. She even offered comp titles. The query that I end up with after re-writing it based on her notes is going to so completely different than what I began with. Writers, I would recommend meeting with her before sending a single query out. Honestly, this was invaluable.
Jessica Tedrick
November 20, 2020
Great, constructive feedback!
Samantha is very helpful with great, constructive feedback. She’s also fantastic at making authors feel at ease and relieving anxiety on phone calls.
Madeline Dau
November 20, 2020
Just what I needed!
Melissa Warten did an excellent job of pinpointing what I needed to tweak on my first page to make it more appealing to editors or agents. She did it quickly and with a smile. It was very encouraging and just what I needed.
Cynthia Reeg
November 20, 2020
Just what I needed!
Melissa Warten did an excellent job of pinpointing what I needed to tweak on my first page to make it more appealing to editors or agents. She did it quickly and with a smile. It was very encouraging and just what I needed.
Cynthia Reeg
November 20, 2020
I left my session with her feeling more confident than ever.
Jessica Sinsheimer was fantastic! She was kind, personable and helpful. She gave positive feedback and helpful editing suggestions. She even went out of her way to show me how to look for agents using key words on twitter and using the manuscript wish list website. I left my session with her feeling more confident than ever.
Megan Persinger
November 20, 2020
I left my session with her feeling more confident than ever.
Jessica Sinsheimer was fantastic! She was kind, personable and helpful. She gave positive feedback and helpful editing suggestions. She even went out of her way to show me how to look for agents using key words on twitter and using the manuscript wish list website. I left my session with her feeling more confident than ever.
Megan Persinger
November 20, 2020
The Manuscript Academy made a huge difference.
I have an agent! I signed with Emily Forney at BookEnds this morning, on the basis of my roller derby young adult novel, and I’m so excited!
Manuscript Academy made a huge difference in getting me the info I needed and in getting me to take the effort to get published seriously. HUGE shout out to Jessica Sinsheimer and Julie True Kingsley!
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Elizabeth Holden
November 3, 2020
I can’t wait to revise my query!
Linda was easy to talk to and covered an amazing amount of subject matter in a short amount of time. Her remarks were quite helpful, and I can’t wait to revise my query!
Kathleen Milligan
November 2, 2020
Always constructive suggestions
Stephanie is great! I originally had her look at my first query attempt in late August. After a lot of changes and iterations, I wanted her to take a look again. She ALWAYS has constructive suggestions, delivered in a kind and encouraging manner. I highly recommend Stephanie for anybody else seeking feedback.
Nancy Pellowski
November 2, 2020
Loved this event!
Loved this event! I’ve been submitting for awhile, and have done a lot of research on queries and first pages so I wasn’t sure what I would take away from the event. But, I found this event to be the shot in the arm I needed. I learned some new research techniques, that’s always helpful. Jessica’s presentation on organizing rejections and taking the emotion out of it was amazing. Every little thing along the way was just what we needed to be able to revise our submissions until they were nice and shiny. I think Julie’s final presentation really showed how little time we as writers have to impress agents.
Nancy Parish
October 16, 2020
Excellent Value for the Cost
Excellent value for the cost, and perfect for people who either haven’t started querying yet and want to get off on the right foot, or those who’ve had trouble getting responses on their queries.
Katie Moynihan
October 16, 2020