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Query Corral Winners

Posted by on Jul 2, 2012 in Contests & Hops | 4 comments

Thank you all for participating in another great hop workshop! As always, I met a slew of great folks. Keep working on those queries and best of luck as you begin the GREAT AGENT QUEST.   PRIZES: In addition to a critique of your opening manuscript pages, I will also give feedback on the winners’ final queries. First Place: A critique of your manuscript up to 2,000 words from editor extraordinaire (yours truly). Second Place: A critique to 1,000 words. Third Place: A critique up to 500...

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Query Corral Blog Hop

Posted by on Jun 17, 2012 in Contests & Hops | 16 comments

As you guys know by now, I love contests! It’s a blast interacting with other writers AND gaining writerly advice. And what the hell? Why not PRIZES? For this contest, let’s round up our queries and toss them in the corral. WHAT Create your best query for your novel (does not have to be a completed ms), give and receive feedback from other entrants, and submit your query for a chance to win! WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE 1. Writers in need of help with their queries 2. Writers who could...

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Guest Author Janice Hardy: A Query By Design

Posted by on Jun 13, 2012 in Author Interviews, Writing Tips | 11 comments

I’d like to welcome Janice Hardy to Between the Sheets today. She’s here discussing how she put together her own eye-catching query that snagged her agent Kristin Nelson. Janice is the author of three YA fantasty novels and runs a popular writerly blog. Check out her links below! Take it away, Janice… Query letters are the bane of many writers. They can be hard, frustrating, and downright impossible sometimes. Advice across the web says you have to make them perfect, but that...

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Query Musts & Query Faux Pas

Posted by on Jun 4, 2012 in Writing Tips | 6 comments

No one really likes writing a query. Yes, it’s a different skill set from novel writing, but it’s an equally important one to learn if you want to snag an agent and land a book deal. It’s really just a form of pitching yourself and your book. If you can’t do that for yourself, who will? No one. So quit your moaning and bang out a few versions. Find another writer or query forum to give you feedback. (I also do this, by the way. See my EDITING page.) How does one begin?...

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QUERY CORRAL CONTEST–COMING SOON

Posted by on May 29, 2012 in Contests & Hops | 0 comments

Having trouble writing a sparkly query that grabs an agent/editor’s attention? Or maybe you just don’t know s*%@ about how to write one? Stay tuned for the Query Corral Blog Hop coming in June. Post your query to your blog, hop around to others’ sites, and give and receive helpful feedback. Submit your BEST version for a chance to win a FREE CRITIQUE for your opening pages from editor extraordinaire, yours truly. Sign ups begin June 18th.  MEANWHILE, visit Between the Sheets...

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