I found this - get feedback on your first 10 pages from an agent. Webpage - More info (9-12 July 2026) What they say: You Don't Get a Second Chance to Make a Good First Impression. As many writers know, agents and editors won't give your work more than ten pages or so to make an impact. If you haven't got them hooked by then, it's a safe bet you won't be asked for more material. Make sure you've got the kind of opening they're looking for! In this invaluable event, you'll get to work with an agent to review and refine the first ten pages of your novel or non-fiction book. You'll learn what keeps an agent reading, what are the most common mistakes that make them stop, and the steps you need to take to correct them. The best part is that you'll be working directly with an agent, who will provide feedback specific to your work.

If anyone is interested in learning organic marketing, you know, the likes of TikTok and Instagram and all that, and you've seen AP Beswick and all he's achieved, he's created his own Skool site. You can go and check him out. I took a TikTok course about 4 years ago, and they were using him as the example of what organic marketing can do for you, and what's possible. They said he went from $50/month sales for 18 months to TikTok three times a day and selling over $100k in his first year. I saw he was going to be at a conference in Spain, so I bought tickets because I wanted to look him in the eyes and see if it was true - he's solid in my opinion, real down to earth. He announced the start of the Novel Gains facebook group at that conference, which i joined. And now has his Skool community, which I haven't checked out myself yet. If you're interested, here you go https://www.skool.com/novel-gains-1247/about?ref=9e527fa10df7475aab6ba82fae3a1582

This is one of my favorite books by Burroughs, The Moon Men - which follows the Moon Maid and has two novellas about two generations of Americans fighting back against the Moon Men. Anyone else read it?

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Any hot takes on Ender's Game? Best military science fiction book ever, or over rated?