Guys!! It's going to be The Writer's Voice time again!!
And this year I get to have a lovely guest coach! So she'll be helping me choose and polish the entries. Give a cyber applause to the awesome and talented: STEPHANIE GARBER!!
Here’s the timeline:
May 20
May 21
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Everybody enters the Rafflecopter lottery
The lottery winners sign up on the widget
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May 21 - June 4
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We select our team members from “The Writer’s Voice”
Blogfest
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June 4-18
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We coach our team members, helping them polish their
entries
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June 19
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We post our team members’ entries on our blogs
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June 23
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Agents vote for their favorites
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Submissions
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)
In other words, we’re accepting pretty much everything
this year. :)
To determine who gets to participate in the
blogfest, we’ll hold a single-entry Rafflecopter lottery on Wednesday, May 20. The
lottery will remain open for 12 hours, from 9:00 a.m. EDT to 9:00 p.m. EDT, at
which point the Rafflecopter will select 200 random winners. Those winners will
then sign up for the blogfest on one of Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets the next
day, May 21. Once you sign up on the widget, you’ll post YOUR QUERY and THE
FIRST 250 WORDS of your manuscript on your blog.
In summary, you must follow these three steps to
enter:
1. Enter the Rafflecopter lottery on May 20
during the submission window listed above.
2. Sign up on the widget on May 21 if
you win the lottery.
3. Post your query and the first 250 words of
your manuscript on your blog.
Selections
We’re building our teams via “The Writer’s
Voice” Blogfest, so YOU MUST HAVE A BLOG TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CONTEST. We
don’t care if you’ve had it for five years or five minutes; we just want to be
able to fight over you in public. :)
We coaches will review the entries and leave a
comment on your post that says something like, “I want you!” If more than one
of us wants you on her team, you’ll have to pick which coach you want to work
with.
Coaching
We’ll select our 8 team members by June 4, then
spend the next two weeks helping them put a final polish on their entries. You
won’t have to take all of our suggestions, of course; we just want to help you
make your entry the best that it can be before the agents get a look at it.
Voting
On June 19, we’ll post our team members’ queries
and first pages on our blogs so that the agents can review them. Here are the
awesome agents who’ll be voting on your entries:
(psst, my agent is down there, and I'm proud that she'll be participating this year!)
The agents will vote for their favorites on June
23. Each vote will count as a partial or full request depending on how many
votes the entry receives. If an entry receives 1 or 2 votes, those votes will
count as partial requests. If an entry receives 3 or more votes, those votes
will count as full requests.
Voting will stay open until 9:00 a.m. EDT on
June 24, at which point we’ll determine which coach’s team received the most
votes. That coach will win bragging rights for time immemorial, and everyone
who received requests will be able to submit their materials to all the agents
who voted for them. These votes represent serious interest in your project, so
PLEASE DON’T ACCEPT AN OFFER OF REPRESENTATION BEFORE GIVING “THE WRITER’S
VOICE” AGENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A COMPETING OFFER.
So get those queries and first pages polished
up, then meet us back here on Wednesday, May 20, between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00
p.m. EDT. We can’t wait to read your entries! (And of course, if you have any
questions, feel free to ask them in the comments below.)
