Pitch Wars Blog Archive

It’s on! Auntie B’s Book Club Blogfest Contest . . . post your entries now!

http://picture-book.com/content/morgan-gaynin-6 Auntie B’s Book Club ContestJuly 17 -20  2nd Update 7/28/11: The girls are almost done reviewing your entries and I’ll have their comments and picks up on August  2 and the winners up on August 3. Update: The girls are busy reading, making comments on each entry, and picking their top two on their lists. I’ll post each girl’s comments as soon as they are finished. Please be patient and again thank you for Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

MISERERE: One Question Blog Tour with author Teresa Frohock … win a copy here!

:    Update: The winner of the copy of MISERERE by selection from Random.org is Tanya Reimer. Congratulations! Please email me your addy at bdrake(at)comcast(dot)net.  I’m so thrilled to be a part of Teresa Frohock‘s One Question Blog Tour. There are several blogs participating and we each get to ask a question for Teresa to answer. As always, I love to give things away, so not only am I purchasing my own copy of MISERERE, Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Four teens judge your story . . . with three editing prizes up for grab!

http://picture-book.com/content/morgan-gaynin-6 Auntie B’s Book Club ContestJuly 17 -20  It’s the final summer for the seniors in my book club that I started with my niece when the girls were in fifth grade. Three of her friends go off to college this fall, while my niece and her other friends will be seniors. Its hard to believe we’re at the end of the book club. We’ve read so many books and had tons of laughs. I’m gong Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Shelley Watter’s Birthday Blowout First Page Contest with Victoria Marini

Today is Shelley Watter’s Birthday Blowout Blogfest Contest (Happy birthday, Shelley!!!) with agent, Victoria Marini. I was hoping to have my new project completed so that I could enter its first 250 words into the contest. But, alas, I failed at finishing it in time. I decided to post Library Jumpers instead. Some of you have read it before, and I apologize for boring you. Actually, I’ve been querying Library Jumpers and I get mix comments Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

We have winners for the Cover Art Contest!

Today’s coffee is a Toffee Skinny Latte. Yum! Just saying. Okay, so back to the post. We have winners! I want to thank everyone who participated and voted for making this such a fun blogfest contest. You all really did a great job at creating some fun and beautiful book covers. I hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as I did. Without further delay, here are the winners: First Place… Lori M. Lee Runners up… Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Cover Art Contest Semi-Finalists … please vote

This has been such a fun blogfest contest! I thoroughly enjoyed the cover art you all created. As with all contests, it’s extremely difficult to pick winners from such a fantastic selection of cover art. Thankfully, I have wonderful friends/judges to help me out, or I’d just choose all the entries. I did find that just as reading preferences are subjective, so are visual preferences.  That said, there were several that we loved and that Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Redesign A Book Cover Blogfest Contest … Starts today!

  It’s on!!! The Redesign a Book Cover Blogfest/Contest starts now. Post your redigned book cover art on your blogs now. We’ll be hopping around judging them. Is it too late to join in on all the fun, you ask? No. You have until mid-night on Monday, June20th. The top picks will be posted on my blog on Tuesday for you all to vote on. See all the deets below!  This is a launch party! Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Redesign A Book Cover Blogfest Contest … win a prize from CA Marshall

http://nuckingfutsmama.com/?p=1291 The fabulous Cassandra Marshall, agent intern/freelance editor/writer/cover art creator has agreed, yet again, to hold another contest on my blog. Yes, she loves me that much! This one is so fun, I’m actually giddy about it. We’re always working on our pitches and pages that we seldom take the time to think beyond the manuscript. So this one is all about book covers. You heard me right … book covers. Cassandra Marshall This is Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

POSSESSION by Elana Johnson … giveaway

ElanaJ ‘s Blog   UPDATE: We have winners!!! The winners of a copy of Elana Johnson’s POSSESSION are Stickynotestories and Tasnim. I’ll be contacting you both to get your addresses. Tomorrow should have deets up about a new contest, so please come by and sign up – It’ll be AWESOME! Plus I have a couple of agents lined up to do contests after the summer. Agents are busy people lately with all the conferences going Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Cyndi Tefft’s BETWEEN … a review and giveaway

Summary Sometimes death is just the beginning…  It just figures that the love of Lindsey Water’s life isn’t alive at all, but the grim reaper, complete with a dimpled smile and Scottish accent. After transporting souls to heaven for the last 300 years, Aiden MacRae has all but given up on finding the one whose love will redeem him and allow him entry through the pearly gates. Torn between her growing attraction to Aiden and heaven’s Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago