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Pitch Live! B-10: RUNNING DOWN THE DRAGON
Genre: Crime Thriller/Urban FantasyWord Count: 103,000 Make sure to stop by my co-hosts blogs to view the other entries… Leigh Ann Kopans Erica M. Chapman
Contests
Pitch Live! … the agents
Pitch Live starts Monday, October 15. Make sure your entries are posted by 8AM EDT (NY time). We’ll go around and grab the codes for the ones we want in the agent round and post them to our blogs by October 17 at 8AM EDT. Make sure to check our Read more…
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Pitch Live! … it’s on
The sign up part of Pitch Live is now closed. Today starts the blogfest part of the contest. Hop around and view each others videos, comment, and meet new friends. You never know what agents will be lurking around the blogs. On October 17 at 8AM EDT the top 30 Read more…
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Month9Books Novella Pitch Event
This is the official submission post to pitch your novella to: Month9Books is looking for 15K (12K – 20K range) novellas for their SWOON imprint with a strong romantic element, any genre, any age range (YA, “new adult,” or adult). We’ll be taking five to six sentence pitches in the Read more…
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Brenda’s critique winners from The Teenaged Nitpick Event
The winners by Random.org for the five 500 word critiques from me from the Teenaged Nitpick critique event are:Eric SteinburgMeaganAdrianne RussellBeck NicholasCrystal Collier Congratulations! Please send any 500 word excerpt from your manuscript or query for critique to brendadrakecontests@gmail.com. Coming up on the blog… Win a copy of TWO AND Read more…
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Announcing…Trick or Treat with Agents Contest
I’m thrilled to announce a very exciting and delicious contest that I was invited to co-host with the extremely talented Kimberly Chase and Deanna Romito. Submissions will open October 24th at 11 AM EDT with the first 150 entries making it in (all rules must be followed correctly to Read more…
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The Teenaged Nitpick Critique: 9
Title: THE SHADOW KINGS Genre: YA fantasy The bayou stinks of blood tonight [something about blood “stinking” sounds odd to me. I’m not sure why, but it sticks out.], as if all the fish were dead. Blech. I plug my nose as tight as I can. If I had my Read more…
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The Teenaged Nitpick Critique: 10
Title: GUARDIANGenre: YA Urban Fantasy Jesse is hunted. [Killer first line! Pun intended.] After spring break, eyes lingered on him and left dead boys wherever we went [I’d switch this sentence around so it says “Wherever he went, dead boys were left” or something else not so passive]. The Read more…