At the RMC-SCBWI 2005 Fall Conference
one of the speakers was Cheryl
Klein, editor at Arthur
A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic. Klein's talk
on "The Rules of Engagement: How to Get (and Keep!)
A Reader Involved in Your Novel" is a rare opportunity to
understand, from an editor's point of view, what it is that makes a manuscript
work and what keeps it from working.
Klein graciously allowed Children Come First to produce an eBook of her talk.
It's divided into three parts.
- The first part of the eBook talks about how to
get and keep a reader involved in your novel. Klein lists the
various things she sees in manuscripts that knock her out of the characters'
brains or worlds—little tiny things, pacing questions, word choices even, that
distract and dislodge her from the story.
- The second part, How to Disengage Your Reader in
Ten Easy Steps, goes through ten different things writers need
to avoid doing if they want to keep the readers engaged in the story.
- The eBook wraps up its third part with a transcript of the question and answer session from the RMC-SCBWI
conference.
The eBook was produced by Children Come First and is
graciously being offered free of charge by its author.
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