My last post was about agents wanting more than good writing. This week, I'm going to give the other side of the story: why a special something called narrative voice matters a lot if you want to attract an agent's attention.
One of my students emailed me about a discouraging response she got from an agent she queried. The agent wrote back "the subject is so intriguing, but I just didn’t fall for the narrative voice as I’d hoped I would." Ouch.
So what does this mean? What is narrative voice and why would an agent need to fall for it?
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