Critique from Executive Editor Nancy Mercado, Roaring Brook Press

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Cynthea

The Prize: One critique of the first five double-spaced pages of your fiction middle grade or young adult novel.

Nancy Mercado

Nancy Mercado

The Darer: Nancy Mercado has been working in children’s publishing for the last ten years and she is currently an executive editor at Roaring Brook Press. She is grateful to have worked on books such as Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis, My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger, Neil Armstrong is My Uncle by Nan Marino and many, many others. Nancy mostly gravitates towards contemporary, realistic middle grade and YA novels with a hopeful quality to them.

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14 Responses to Critique from Executive Editor Nancy Mercado, Roaring Brook Press

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    July 8, 2009 at 9:55 pm

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    July 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm

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    July 2, 2009 at 3:28 pm

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    June 30, 2009 at 1:13 pm

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    June 28, 2009 at 7:29 pm

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    June 26, 2009 at 1:47 pm

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    June 24, 2009 at 12:33 am

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    June 23, 2009 at 11:16 pm

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    June 23, 2009 at 12:16 pm

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