Wednesday, July 8, 2015

#WNDB Contest with Agent Carrie Pestritto of the Prospect Agency—the WINNERS!



I’m SUPER happy to announce that Carrie has picked the winners ALREADY!
(She’s so fast, isn’t she?!)

Carrie Pestritto wants to read the first 100 pages of:

HOW MINERVA MAY CHRISTOPOULOS SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT by Lyn Hawks
STRONG WOMEN GROW HERE by Mona Alvarado Frazier
THE HUSTLE by Elizabeth Roderick
THE LOVE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND LILY by Laura Creedle
THE SIGNS WE MISSED by Marisa Urgo

And also the first 50 pages of:

30 DAYS WITH DR. DEATH by Colleen Oefelein

I will be emailing you soon with the submission guidelines. I see that not all the winners gave their emails on the posts, though, so if you didn’t put your email, please email me at moniDOTbwATgmailDOTcom with your title on the subject line, so I can give you your submission guidelines.

And the query critique winner is:

THE STAR HOST, by F.T. Lukens
(I’ll send the query crit your way soon!)

Thank you guys for participating!
<3
M

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Contest with Agent Carrie Pestritto of the Prospect Agency!

The contest is now CLOSED. Thanks for participating! 


The Agent-Judged Contest starts NOW!
Rules:

1) This contest is ONLY OPEN for Diverse YA and NA manuscripts #WNDB. (Only FINISHED manuscripts.) For more information, click HERE.

2) This is for unagented writers only.

3) You should post your query pitch (not the whole query) and the 1st page on the comment of THIS post. The entry should read like this:

-Your Name
-Title of your book
-Genre
-Word-count of your manuscript
-Your email
-The pitch (just the meat of the query)
-The first 250-ish words of your ms. 
- Bonus: link to Twitter (optional--explained below) 

4) Please, spread the word. I’m not going to haunt you if you don’t, but it’d make me REALLY happy if lots of people came to participate.

5) The contest will close tomorrow at 8 AM EDT (7/8/15). 

ALSO, as a BONUS!! If you read NA fiction and are considering reading my debut FROSH (Oct 20, 2015), you can win a random query critique from Carrie.  
All you have to do is tweet saying why you'd like to read FROSH. 

Sample tweet: I want to read @Monica_BW 's FROSH because [ _reason + link to Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25154047-frosh] 

Then, copy/paste the link to your tweet at the bottom of your entry. And that's it! I'll choose a random winner and Carrie will critique your query for you!

GOOD LUCK!