Pitch Contest with Victoria Marini

Chanelle Gray is hosting an agent judged contest on her blog Beyond Words.


Victoria is with Gelfman Schneider Literary Agency. The winner gets a chance to submit their entire manuscript, and in Victoria's words "at the very least, a critique." And since she seems totally awesome and I'm querying her anyway, I will be entering.

So, you wanna see my entry?
I thought you'd never ask.

Two sentence pitch:

To sixteen-year-old Melinda, getting a boyfriend is at the top of her To Do List, although she never imagined that he’d come from a hidden magical society. Of course, she also didn’t imagine she’d find herself in the middle of a civil war with a target on her back.

Design a Book Cover Blogfest

Brenda Drake is hosting Redesign a Book Cover Blogfest with CA Marshall. Or we can design a cover for our own yet to be published book. Fun! My cover is original artwork for my YA urban fantasy.
Head over to Brenda Drake's blog and check out the other participants.

Another Awesome Contest

Want a chance to win the newly released A TOUCH MORTAL by Leah Clifford?

She is having an awesome giveaway and up for grabs, are five ... yes I said FIVE ... prize packs!

Hop on over to A Touch of Leah to enter.
The contest is open to Canada and U.S. only and ends March 31st.

Cool Agent, Hot Book

Literary agent Diana Fox of
Fox Literary
has a new blog, leaving behind her
Livejournal/Dreamwidth.

She hopes to have more content
at her new site,
and to celebrate
she is offering up an
ARC of Claudia Gray's AFTERLIFE.

So, hop on over and check it out.

Zombies...

I entered The Zombified Writing Contest over at Bree Ogden's blog This Literary Life. The contest was to write three sentences with the zombie theme.
I didn't win, but I did get a special mention.

"Whose entry was absolutely hilarious and clever!"

Here's my entry:

Soft music and candle light set the mood as they gazed into each others eyes. “You’ve stolen my heart,” he whispered.
“Sorry, do you want it back?” she replied, lowering her eyes bashfully and holding it out for him to take.

Thanks Bree and D.M.!

I'm not a loser anymore!

Remember that contest I mentioned? Sure you do. It's right over there ---->

Well. I won third place!
This is sooo great, because I was going to query the awesome Suzie Townsend just as soon as I tweaked my synopsis [tweaked = finish], and now I get to work with awesome intern GEMMA COOPER!
I am super-duper excited!
Can you tell?
I've never won anything like this before!
I can't stop using the exclamation point!

Very Vampire May Giveaway - Update

So, a couple of weeks ago, I told you about Sara McClung's "Very Vampire May Giveaway" contest. Well, the contest has been extended until midnight tonight, and she is offering extra points if you blog about it.
I could really use more points, because I really want the signed copy of Twilight.
I am a huge fan of Stephenie Meyer! Who isn't? If I lived closer, I would probably stalk her.
If by some crazy chance she sees this...

Just kidding Stephenie. You're so pritty.

Did someone say "Vampires"?

Sara Mcclung has a contest going. It's called "A Very Vampire May Giveaway". She's got some great prizes. Including a signed copy of Twilight!

The contest goes from May 10-June 2. Winners to be announced June 3rd. Check it out. And check out Sara. She's cute as a button.

Now back to the copy of Twilight ... Winning that would be beyond frickin awesome. My copy is a little worn, so I could use a shiny new SIGNED copy on my bookshelf.