As it occasionally happens, I discovered a great piece of advice not on my usual rounds of favorite writer, agent, and pub-pro blogs.  Today’s iteration of this phenomenon is from Andreas Kluth, a correspondent for The Economist.  His site, The Hannibal Blog, is ostensibly about composing a book, so I guess this is technically a writer link. 

Pazoom — writer-link icon activated!  (Hope Andreas doesn’t mind being represented by Sappho.)

Anyway, to the link itself.   Invoking a few historical examples along the way, Kluth stresses the importance of having a good First Reader.  Every aspiring author should find this quite interesting.  Enjoy!