Literary Criticism

First Page: Contemporary Romance titled “Long Road Home”

First Page: Contemporary Romance titled “Long Road Home”

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** New York City, Manhattan, somewhere between So-Ho and Hell’s Kitchen: What are the chances of not only finding yourself(…)

First Page: YA Paranormal

First Page: YA Paranormal

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Stop and smell the roses, for tomorrow they may be dead. Chapter 1 The tribal drum thumps in my(…)

First Page:  UNTITLED FANTASY

First Page: UNTITLED FANTASY

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Blue’s boots sunk into the sand. A gust hurled even more curls into her face. She paused and tightened her(…)

First Page:  Untitled

First Page: Untitled

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Chapter 1 - Malta 1804 If I needed someone to slit a throat or steal a purse, Eaton thought, I(…)

First Page:  Contemporary Romance

First Page: Contemporary Romance

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Finley stepped out of the terminal and caught the smell of the Atlantic even before the glass doors had(…)

First Page:  Sylvan Legacy, YA Historical Romance with Fantasy Elements

First Page: Sylvan Legacy, YA Historical Romance with Fantasy Elements

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** The horse’s hooves thunder across the hillside, and with each bunching of its muscles, I feel my heart pound.(…)

First Page:  Untitled Paranormal Romance

First Page: Untitled Paranormal Romance

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. ***   For as long as Cali could remember she’d had the good angel, bad devil thing going on.  Of(…)

First Page:  untitled M/M Paranormal Romance

First Page: untitled M/M Paranormal Romance

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Lukas von Rainer was at the hotel bar with his fellow Wardens when the priest passed. Everyone’s eye was(…)

First Page:  Historical Romance, Titled Haunted

First Page: Historical Romance, Titled Haunted

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Essex, England 1789 Elsie picked another flower. Her fist was full of them already, but she didn’t want to(…)

First Page:  Unnamed Paranormal

First Page: Unnamed Paranormal

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Sweat dripped down my forehead. My hair hung damp in my face, a limp version of its former self.(…)

First Page:  ParanormalRomance, Past the Horizon

First Page: ParanormalRomance, Past the Horizon

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Reginald Beckett—England 1790 Like casualties of war, fallen on the field of battle, the glasses were laid out across(…)

First Page:  Los Defensores: The Beginning a Paranormal Romance

First Page: Los Defensores: The Beginning a Paranormal Romance

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** City of Lundun, province of Brittania, United Empire. 27 Janvier, 3.021 AGD In Silas Marrack’s opinion—which concurred with the(…)

First Page: Circling Great Wharf

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Author describes this as “women’s fiction with elements of romance and suspense.” Beginning of first chapter in Circling Great Wharf:(…)

First Page: The Gift Giver, an m/m romance

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. **** The following is an explicit excerpt.  Please do not click if this will make you uncomfortable. Send to Kindle

First Page: YA Paranormal Romance

Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. *** Update: You guys, I messed up. The author sent me a revised version and I put up the unrevised(…)