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Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller?
Email readers, heads up! For the full effect, pause after the excerpt and decide: Would you turn the page? Vote and then scroll for the reveal!
Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents often make their read/not-read decision on the first page . In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on the first page.
Here’s the question:
Would you pay good money to read the rest of the chapter? With 50 chapters in a book that costs $15, each chapter would be “worth” 30 cents.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/02/19/flog-a-pro-would-you-turn-the-first-page-of-this-bestseller-43/