YA memoir author Marcie Bridges of The Incredible Shrinking Woman has invited me to stop by her blog today to talk about whether it's a good idea to post online excerpts from the book you're writing.
Marcie and I met last month during Deana Barnhart's Gearin' Up to Get an Agent blogfest, and the story behind Marcie's query and first pages had me instantly hooked. If you get a moment, I hope to see you there. By the way, today is Marcie's birthday!
ONDINE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
CherylAnne Ham of Making Words Happen is the winner of Ebony McKenna's debut romantic fantasy Ondine: Summer of Shambles.
And speaking of Deana Barnhart, she is the winner of the second book in the series, Ondine: Autumn Palace.
Thank you very much to everybody who stopped by and commented. Ebony and I truly appreciate it. The winner was selected by www.random.org.
CherylAnne and Deana, I'll be sending an e-mail message to you, so I can get your mailing address.
CONTESTS
Yesterday I blogged about Gabriela Lessa's Get Your Foot in the Door contest.
Well, YATopia is holding The Huge Micro Synopsis Contest with agent John Cusick of S(c)ott Treimel NY. John is looking for a three-sentence synopsis that covers the set up, story and ending; you don't have to give away the twist or ending, just give a taste of it to spark interest. The contest will be open until midnight Aug. 11.
Then Rachel McClellan of Blackbird in my Window is co-hosting a first-500 words contest with agent Lauren Ruth of BookEnds LLC. This contest will be open through Aug. 11.
JOYOUS MILESTONE
Lauri Blasch, acquisitions editor for Black Opal Books, has requested a full of my historical YA, The Underground Gift. This opportunity is the result of a Savvy Authors contest. If you haven't had an opportunity to visit this site, it's an excellent resource for authors. They usually hold several contests a month as well.
15 comments:
Michelle, good of you to keep us up-to-date on what's going on in the world of writing contests. Gonna have a look at that 500 word contest.
As for putting your work on line mine as most is fully copyrighted, but saying that I accidentically found a seller on Ebay advertising my book, saying he had 10 copies all brand new........and charging way above the agreed price. I contacted the seller who said he did not have any "Actual Books! but if orders came in he would get them from Amazon.I knew Amazon only had 1 left. Also it had a different IBSN number . I contacted the ISBN office who told me that they suspected a possible "Book Copying". I contacted Ebay the books were withdrawn for sale and had to see a lawyer about the seller, who at the moment is looking into it. It haven't put me off of writing my works on line or doing another book.
Congratulations to CherylAnne...one of my favorite bloggers. Oh, and I would never post my work online.
Thanks for all the great info!
@J.L., good luck with the contest!
@welcome to my world of poetry, aka Yvonne, how awful that you had that experience on eBay; I hope it didn't have any lasting negative results. I am glad, though, that it hasn't stopped you from writing and sharing.
@Michael, I agree it can be a tricky situation. I might post a sentence here and there, and I even have the first five chapters posted on scribd.com, but then again I don't think anyone who would want to steal my idea would want to go through the time and effort it would take to do the necessary research to complete the storyline. :)
Lovely place you have here, very enjoyable readings. I am glad I bumped into your blog. Kisses.
Congratulations on the full request! :)
SO many things happening!!! Looks like I have quite a few links to jump on!!
@unikorna, welcome to Bird's-eye View! I'm glad you enjoyed your visit.
Another request for a full?! That is wonderful news, Michelle!
Thanks again for doing the guest post on my blog today. What fun! :)
Going to check it out now!
congrats on a request for a full. Thanks too for all the great links
Great news that Lauri Blasch requested a full! Keep us posted. Wish I had more time to do some of the contests you mentions, but I'm at a writer's retreat and busy, busy, busy... but happy busy.
@Rosi, ah, but a writer's retreat ... isn't that worth several many contests? :)
Congratulations to the winners, and congratulations to you for the request for a full. Wheeeee! Well done.
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