Caleb, I'm a Wonderful Person

Theo: If I were an agent, this line would be a hard pass. You'd think I was shitting a spike mine. He says he is trying to replicate the critical inner voice of a busy agent or editor who's pressed the time and has just had your first chapter pop into their inbox. "If you can find them in the first page, you don't have to read 140,000 words of absolute dog shit for no financial reward whatsoever"