First Impressions: THE COURAGE OF DRAGONS

Our first submission for First Impressions in December comes from Luanne Smith and is an adult fantasy called THE COURAGE OF DRAGONS. *** I checked my pocket for the sea glass, then unlatched the gate to the abandoned churchyard. I did not mind walking among the...

First Impressions: NIGHTSAND

Our final submission for First Impressions in November comes from another repeat visitor, Christine Danek. This is the first page of a YA Fantasy titled NIGHTSAND. *** The sheets are slightly chilled when I stretch my hand under the pillow. I crouch over her and lay...

First Impresssions: ASHES

November is the month for repeat visitors, which I love! I’m happy to think that our feedback is useful. Today, Blake Haysel is here with ASHES, a YA post-apocalyptic dystopian. *** Till the sun explodes.           As the sun was bidding goodnight to the star littered...

First Impressions: MENDED BY LOVE

Marcy and I have a very different sort of submission to kick off First Impressions in November. Pk Hrezo, who has shared first pages with us many times before, is co-authoring a memoir with Vanna Nguyen. It is titled MENDED BY LOVE: A MOTHER’S MEMOIR OF FAITH AND...

First Impressions: SQUATCH WATCH

  Our final submission for October First Impressions is a MG humorous adventure from Michelle L. Brown titled SQUATCH WATCH: ***  If you’re going to be the first human to interview Bigfoot, you need bait.             But my bait had a sore throat. Rodney, the...

First Impressions: THE PET CONNECTION

  Our next submission for October First Impressions is a humorous contemporary MG by Rebecca Anderson. Her working title (and she says she’s open to other suggestions) is THE PET CONNECTION: *** Badger Jacobs didn’t think he was an especially lucky person. So he...