Query Workshop B-10: PIECES OF REVENGE

It’s day five of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. I’ll have three more queries from the winners of a drawing on Katherine Amabel’s (@katherineamabel) blog Beyond the Hourglass Bridge up tomorrow on the blog. Come back tomorrow to critique them and get more entries for the critique prizes, which will be announced on Monday. And here’s my next critique…       Read more…

Query Workshop B-7: DARKLING

Before we start I have winners for the three entries into the query workshop from Beyond The Hourglass Bridge Blog. All three critiques will be up on my blog on Saturday. Winners please email me your queries stat at brendadrakecontests@gmail.com. If you don’t wish to participate, please let  me know and I’ll choose another winner. And the winners from Random.org are… Aimee SalterE. ArroyoEmily Cushing  It’s day four of the query workshop with me and Read more…

Query Workshop B-8: THE SHOW MUST NOT GO ON

Before we start I have winners for the three entries into the query workshop from Beyond The Hourglass Bridge Blog. All three critiques will be up on my blog on Saturday. Winners please email me your queries stat at brendadrakecontests@gmail.com. If you don’t wish to participate, please let  me know and I’ll choose another winner. And the winners from Random.org are… Aimee SalterE. ArroyoEmily Cushing  It’s day four of the query workshop with me and Read more…

Query Workshop B-5: DISTANT HORIZON

It’s day three of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. It’s going to be awesome. And here’s my next critique…              Dear Agent, When eighteen-year-old Jenna Nickleson is targeted by the Camaraderie of Evil for having super powers, she escapes the Community and joins her grandfather’s team of rebels. But being able to make vines grow isn’t much of a weapon Read more…

Query Workshop B-6: BETTER LIVES

It’s day three of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. It’s going to be awesome. And here’s my next critique…   Dear Agent, Arrogant prep-schooler Marc Andrews knows stealing the physics final was a dumbass idea.  But when his roommate and self-appointed jiminy-cricket, Tim, suggests that giving back the test is his last chance to do the right thing, Marc laughs in Read more…

Query Workshop B-3: OF ICE AND ASHES

It’s day two of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. It’s going to be awesome. And here’s my next critique…   Dear Super Agent, Sixteen-year-old Wren is Tainted. Hideous black spider-web scars mar the other survivors of an elemental explosion, but Wren’s skin is pale and perfect—and dangerous. Her icy touch causes excruciating pain for everyone except the caretaker her father left Read more…

Query Workshop B-4: MOONDREAMER: The Sowing

  It’s day two of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. It’s going to be awesome. And here’s my next critique…   Dear Judges, Syxx is a Moondreamer: A rare type of Fae that can make wishes come true, and will things into being. On her way home from a concert, the Fae Council manipulates her and hundreds of other Fae into Read more…

Query Worship B-1: PURE SEA, GREY WAVES

It’s day one of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. It’s going to be awesome. So, let’s get this party started. Here’s my first critique…      Dear Agent: In an underwater village, no light-skinned Pure dares to befriend the Greys. Their scales are so much darker than the Pures, obviously, so they must be inferior. But when one loud-mouthed child sneaks Read more…

Query Workshop B-2: COLD SUMMER

It’s day one of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. It’s going to be awesome. So, let’s get this party started. Here’s my next critique…   Dear (name of agent) Kale has no future. He can’t stay long enough to go to school, get a job, or even keep the friends he once had. As a time-traveler, having a normal life is Read more…

Query Workshop Winners …instructions

cc: shordzi Query Letter Workshop August 20 – 24  Okay, we have winners into the query workshop. But before, here’s some exciting stuff going down …   Three more chances to get into the workshop… If you didn’t make it into the workshop, you can win one of three query critiques from me if you stop by Katherine Amabel’s (@katherineamabel) blog Beyond the Hourglass Bridge and leave a comment on her interview post of me. Read more…