Monday, November 15, 2010

And Our Winners Are:

In Ms. Janczuk's own words:

I didn’t think it would be so difficult to judge this contest, but in the end, it was—lots of good things and things that need work were happening on different levels. In the end I thought about the writing, my personal preferences genre- and writing-wise, and how excited I was about a particular excerpt overall, taking into consideration whether the excerpt promised a solid, well written and interesting read in the rest of the text.

I have read some of these excerpts in my slush pile, too, and I tried to be fair, looking at them as objectively as I could.

My winners—



HONORARY MENTIONS

I’d like to see a query and the first fifteen pages.


#17 – SWEET SPOT

#30 – INTERSECTIONS

#38 – CARLY’S HEARSE

#41 – SET ‘EM UP, JOE


THIRD PLACE

I’d like to see a query and the first thirty pages.


#7—AMID THE ALIEN CORN

#21—THE FIFTH GENERATION


SECOND PLACE

I’d like to see a query and the first fifty pages.


#12—LOUISIANA MONEY MOUTH AND KATRINA’S BIG BLOW

#27—RITES OF FLESH


FIRST PLACE

I’d like to see a query and the full manuscript.


#35 – SEEING ALEX

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Congratulations to all winners! Please email me at facelesswords(at)gmail.com for specific submissions instructions.

13 comments:

  1. OMG. I'm #35. I'm shaking! Wow, this is amazing. Thank you so much! What awesome critiques, and this is such a valuable forum.

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  2. Sharla, CONGRATULATIONS!! I loved your opening and am not the least surprised the full MS was requested. I wish you the very best and look forward to seeing your novel in the bookstore. Way to go!

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  3. Awww, you're sweet! You gave a great crit, too, thank you. Which one did you write? I wish everyone had to fess up their number now...LOL...because I had some favorites that won and some that didn't and I'd love to know who they were.

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  4. Yay. Congrats winners. How exciting!!!! Great job, everyone.

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  5. Congratulations Winners!

    Sharia I am so glad you finally worked out your problem and got you ms accepted. I was the other person having some issues with submissions.

    You must be thrilled!

    Michael

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  6. Congratulations, Sharla!

    And thank you, Weronika, for your detailed feedback.

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  7. I totally missed last week altogether (life is too nutty just now). Congrats to the winners. I'll have to go back and check out the talent!

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  8. Congrats, winners, and thank you Weronika for such detailed critiques. Very educational!

    And thanks Authoress.

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  9. Congratulations everyone, especially Sharla! There were some good first pages, but yours really stood out to me.

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  10. Congrats to all the winners! :) I read through Weronika's critiques and was blown away by how detailed it was. Wish I wrote in her preferred genres!

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  11. Go winners! Some good stuff there. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for all of you.

    And thanks for taking the extra time, Weronika, to do the line-edit crits.

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  12. Congratulations Sharla!

    Mine was a third place winner, so I'm excited. This blog is such a valuable resource for writers... I've shared it with both my critique groups.

    Thank you, Authoress and Weronika, for all the work you do for aspiring writers!

    Cheers,
    Diana

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  13. Congrats, Sharla! I'm so excited for you! Woohoo!

    And congrats to all the other winners as well.

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