Sign up for the July First Page Workshop with Pitch Wars Mentors!

I’m holding a first page workshop with some of our wonderful Pitch Wars mentors during the month of July! They’ll critique your first page and help you shine it up to snag an agent or a mentor (if you’re entering Pitch Wars this coming August). We have 34 (possibly more) spots available. All you have to do is sign up for a chance to win one of the spots on the Rafflecopter below. The critique Read more…

The Writer’s Voice … let the team battles begin!

. The coaches started leaving invitations on the entries this morning and may continue to do so through Tuesday, June 2. If you’ve already received an invitation, congratulations! If you haven’t, there’s still time. If you receive more than one invitation by tomorrow evening, you’ll need to decide which coach you want to work with by Wednesday morning and MAKE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT NO LATER THAN 10:00 A.M. EDT ON THE TWITTER HASHTAG (#THEWVOICE) OR IN Read more…

FORGET TOMORROW by Pintip Dunn … cover reveal!

Forget Tomorrow by Pintip Dunn Release Date: 11/03/15 Entangled Teen Summary from Goodreads: Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided…by your future self. It’s Callie’s seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she’s eagerly awaiting her vision―a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they’re meant to be. A world-class swimmer. A renowned scientist. Or in Callie’s case, a criminal. In her vision, she sees herself murdering her beloved Read more…

The Writer’s Voice Blogfest is live!

#TheWVoice Blogfest is live! Over the next two weeks, the coaches will review your queries and first pages on the blogs listed below, and if one of the coaches wants you on her team, she’ll leave a comment on your post that says something like, “I want you!” (Please note that the coaches won’t post any comments until Monday, June 1, so don’t fret when you don’t get an instant “I want you!”) If more Read more…

The Writer’s Voice … enter the Rafflecopter now!

Welcome to #TheWVoice 2015! To enter, your manuscript must meet two conditions: First, it must be COMPLETE, POLISHED, AND READY TO QUERY, and second, it must be in one of the following genres: MG fiction (all genres) YA fiction (all genres) NA fiction (all genres except erotica) Adult genre fiction (excluding erotica) Adult literary fiction (including women’s fiction but excluding erotica) Adult commercial fiction (including women’s fiction but excluding erotica) Also, YOU MUST HAVE A Read more…

THE WRATH & THE DAWN by Renée Ahdieh … release day!

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound Blurb: Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder Read more…

THE SOUND OF LIFE AND EVERYTHING by Krista Van Dolzer … new release!

Buy it now! AMAZON | B&N | BAM | INDIEBOUND | !NDIGO | POWELL’S | TKE (signed!) | GOODREADS About the book … Twelve-year-old Ella Mae Higbee is a sensible girl. She eats her vegetables and wants to be just like Sergeant Friday, her favorite character on Dragnet. So when her auntie Mildred starts spouting nonsense about a scientist who can bring her cousin Robby back to life, Ella Mae doesn’t believe her–until a boy Read more…

The Pitch Wars Mentors Query Workshop!

I’m holding a query workshop with some of our wonderful Pitch Wars mentors during the month of June! They’ll critique your query and help you shine it up to snag an agent or a mentor (if you’re entering Pitch Wars this coming August). We have 42 spots available. All you have to do is sign up for a chance to win one of the spots on the Rafflecopter below. The critique will be posted on Read more…

Win 1 of 4 eBook copies of AWAKENING by Shannon Duffy

I’m giving away four eBooks of AWAKENING by Shannon Duffy!! I love this book by my critique partner and I want to share it with you. Shannon is such a wonderful and giving person, it’s time for me to give back to her. Won’t you join me in celebrating this book? All you have to do is enter the Rafflecopter below to win.     About the book … A thrilling, futuristic sci-fi novel set Read more…

THE YEAR OF LIGHTNING by Ryan Dalton … cover reveal!

Releasing December 8, 20015 Add it to your Goodreads shelf! About the book … The house has no doors. It’s been abandoned for decades. Yet one night, Malcolm sees a face in the window. Fifteen-year-old twins, Malcolm and Valentine Gilbert, never imagined an old house across the street could be so much trouble. A secret machine inside has woken up, and its power is growing. Meanwhile, lightning storms are breaking out all over town. They’re Read more…