Contests
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 next post for some exciting stuff. Until then, here are the agents viewing your pitches. Laurie McLean (@agentsavant) Larsen Pomada Literary Agents Laurie McLean is 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 videos will be on the host blogs for the agents. Check out our agent line up here. Make sure to put this heading above your Read more…
Books
TWO AND TWENTY DARK TALES: DARK RETELLINGS OF MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. … we have winners!
It was great fun reading about everyone’s favorite Mother Goose rhythms. So I thought I’d give you a bit of fun trivia before revealing the winners. I’ve been to the Granary Burial Ground Cemetery, which is in the middle of downtown Boston. You can see the graveyard from the windows of the Boston Athenaeum where my novel, LIBRARY JUMPERS, starts out. It is believed that this head stone is the burial place of Mother Read more…
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FORGET ME NOT … ghost tour!
Welcome to STOP #3 of Carolee Dean’s FORGET ME NOT GHOST TOUR! FORGET ME NOT is a paranormal verse novel exploring the story of a young girl, Ally Cassell, who makes a rash and desperate decision after being bullied and ostracized to the point of humiliation. She then finds herself vacillating between worlds with the ability to see ghosts. As she learns their stories, she realizes that suffering is a human phenomenon present throughout history. 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 comments of this post starting October 1 through October 7. The fabulous editors from Month9Books will be stopping by to read the pitches and make 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 TWENTY DARK TALES: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes coming from Month9Books this October. Go here for details. Pitch your novella to Month9Books October 1. 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 advance). Each host will then choose 12 entries that best fit the interests of the participating agents. The finalists will be posted on our blogs 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 way, I’d be back in the hammock on my cabin porch, eating buttered shrimp and lula beans with Grandma Apera. [I really want you to 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 murders are messages that if I fail to watch Jesse, he and his Corr [what’s a “Corr”?] will be devoured. An addicted daphir [I also Read more…