Please adhere to the following guidelines:
- The Query Contest is open to authors of COMPLETED MANUSCRIPTS who have ALREADY BEGUN or are GETTING READY TO BEGIN the query process.
- Your query letter should be in FINAL FORM (no rough drafts or "first tries")
- Each entrant will mail his QUERY LETTER and FIRST 250 WORDS OF THE NOVEL to me at facelesswords(at)gmail.com in the following format:
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QUERY LETTER (don't type "query letter"; just insert the letter here)
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FIRST 250 WORDS of your manuscript (don't type "first 250 words"; just insert the words here)
- I will take THE FIRST 50 ENTRIES in the submission time frame
- Submissions received BEFORE THIS POST APPEARED will not qualify (unless the time stamp is the equivalent of 9:00 am EDT)
- Submissions will close AS SOON AS I HAVE RECEIVED 50 entries
- DO NOT SUBMIT MORE THAN ONCE. Most of the time, that will only serve to push your entry back in the queue, decreasing your chance of making the 50 cut-off
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Young Adult (including SFF)
- MG (including SFF)
- Horror
- Romance
- Women's Fiction (including Chicklit)
I was--quite literally--poised over the mouse and keyboard, eyes on the clock, waiting for 9:00.
ReplyDeleteI woke up over an hour early so I could be conscious to do this! Thanks for the opportunity, Authoress.
ReplyDeleteI was there, finger on trigger and I'm two time zones away. :D Thanks Authoress --as usual this is the best place to be for aspiring writers!
ReplyDeleteI waited for gmail time, so hopefully I'm not a second early!
ReplyDeletethanks so much for this!
Aah rush rush rush! :) Never participated in a contest here before, and I'm looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteI was away all weekend, so like most of the time...I missed another contest!!!
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