HUGE Critique Giveaway and Interview with Joyce Sweeney

Hey! Check this out. Mindy Alyse Weiss is holding a fantastic contest for all you writers out there on her blog. Go there now and follow the rules for entering to win some amazing prizes (critiques galore!) and read an interview with the most generous Joyce Sweeney. This contest is being held to celebrate her new online course (which sounds wonderful). You can find a link for that on Mindy's blog as well. What are you waiting for? Go there now. (And thanks for stopping by here first.)

I'm in!

Whew, it's been a whirlwind GUTGAA week with reading and critiquing queries and the first 150 words of fellow participants. I feel like I didn't get nearly enough critiques in. I read a good portion of the submissions, but I wasn't able to give as many critiques. I very much appreciate the wonderful critiques I received on my work. My query is all the better for this week's experiences.

And, after attempting the morning window of Agent Pitch submissions (I hit the send button at 11:01:05 and still didn't get in), I made it into the 4:00 submission window. Yay! I'll tell ya, I stared at the clock until my eyes went all googly, and with my heart pounding I hovered over the send key until the clock struck 4:00 exactly and bam! my quick-draw-McGraw-sending finger got my email sent at 4:00:00. Several tense minutes later, I got the email that I'm in!

So, yeah, I'm celebrating the little things and looking forward to the judging fun of next week. In the meantime, have a wonderful weekend. And to my new Gutgaan friends, good luck and relax until next week when the fun starts all over again.

Free Edit Giveaway

Today I'm celebrating the joys of the internet and the wonderful writing community it brings right to my fingertips. I've submitted my middle grade novel for a possible free edit from DearEditor! Oh yeah!

Newsflash: A DearEditor.com FREE EDIT Giveaway

  What are you waiting for? Go sign up now!

“Dear Lucky Agent” Contest (Middle Grade Fiction)

A shout out to all middle grade writers. There's still time to enter the “Dear Lucky Agent” Contest on the GLA blog. Get your one sentence pitch and your first 150-200 words of your completed middle grade novel put together and enter here. Good luck!

A Cool Giveaway for MG or YA writers

Dear-Editor.com is celebrating their one month anniversary with a giveaway of a free edit of a YA/MG manuscript.  Visit the site for more information.

http://dear-editor.com/