First Line Frenzy: First Paragraph Edition

Jon Darga and Rebecca Heyman

Jon Michael Darga is an agent at Aevitas Creative Management, where he represents both fiction and non-fiction. Formerly an editor at Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, he still edits through his freelance work with Reedsy. Rebecca Faith Heyman has a BA/MA in English and American Literature from NYU, and has been a freelance editor since 2009. She is the founder and director of The Work Conference, an annual writers' event in New York City. She lives outside of Boston with her husband, two kids, and a precocious Siberian cat.