With nine novels out at traditional publishers like Random House and Simon & Schuster, I've gotten a lot of rejections on stories. What makes the first few pages stand out and land a deal? 

Most of it is stuff you have no control over, like maybe it just didn't "click" with the agent or editor. (That is totally valid!) What you *can* control is introducing your main character, Voice, tone, and major conflict in those first ten pages. Many novels do it in the first page.  

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