As an author I've had to address this quite a bit reading other indie books. Like, I give my fellow indies five chapters and I get maybe one in 20 I make to the end. Professionally, the first 50 pages is basically what you use to sell your book to an agent. In fact, at first you get 5. So, writing "Wisdom" is you get 4 pages to hook a reader. This means you gotta get your conflict/stakes and general feeling of the world presented ASAP.
For a debut/first book in a series, those 50 pages should be the MOST polished/perfect pages of writing. They're the marketing for the agent, the editor, and the publisher to know if you've got the stuff to have a complete book sell.
Maybe they had a good synopsis, not that most agents ask for one anymore. I dunno. Getting a pub deal is worse than winning the lottery it feels.
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As an author I've had to address this quite a bit reading other indie books. Like, I give my fellow indies five chapters and I get maybe one in 20 I make to the end. Professionally, the first 50 pages is basically what you use to sell your book to an agent. In fact, at first you get 5. So, writing "Wisdom" is you get 4 pages to hook a reader. This means you gotta get your conflict/stakes and general feeling of the world presented ASAP.
For a debut/first book in a series, those 50 pages should be the MOST polished/perfect pages of writing. They're the marketing for the agent, the editor, and the publisher to know if you've got the stuff to have a complete book sell.
Maybe they had a good synopsis, not that most agents ask for one anymore. I dunno. Getting a pub deal is worse than winning the lottery it feels.