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Red Pen Sessions
How to Transform Passive Goals into High-Stakes Tension in a YA Time-Slip Query
Aug 25
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Kathleen Foxx
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Master Your Novel’s Opening Pages
A lit agent and editor's 21-point guide to hooks, tension, and irresistible writing
Aug 24
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Kathleen Foxx
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Beta Readers and Critique Partners
What are they and when do you need them? (Plus a wee contest for free subscribers!)
Aug 4
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Kathleen Foxx
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July 2026
To Prologue or Not to Prologue? That is the Question...
Love 'em or hate 'em, they are a thing, but how do you know if you need one?
Jul 30
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Kathleen Foxx
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First Page Critique
Engage your reader from line 1! Plus, the difference between an introduction, an author's note, and a prologue.
Jul 27
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Kathleen Foxx
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Agent Q&A Part Three
Final Round of Questions!
Jul 22
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Kathleen Foxx
4
2
What Does it Mean to be a Literary Agent AND an Editor?
Wait, you can be both? At the same time? Doesn’t that go against a…rule or something?
Jul 16
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Kathleen Foxx
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Agent Q&A Part Two
Answering More of Your Burning Questions!
Jul 14
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Kathleen Foxx
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Good News!
New and Improved Ways to Hang Out in the Kat's Keynotes Community!
Jul 8
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Kathleen Foxx
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Agent Q&A Part One
Answering Your Burning Questions!
Jul 7
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Kathleen Foxx
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4
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Query Critique: June 2026
Unpacking a SFF Query: How to Approach Comps and Including Enough Details in the Plot Paragraphs
Jul 1
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Kathleen Foxx
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June 2026
I've Had to Give Some Bad News About Editing Lately...and Trust Me, it's Good Advice
How Editing is Like Building a House
Jun 15
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Kathleen Foxx
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4
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