Monday, June 27, 2016

CRITIQUE GIVEAWAY!!!

I have this weird thing about me. I like critiquing queries, and I'm good at it too, so that helps. I've wanted to offer a critique giveaway for a while, but have been too busy to actually do it.

But guess what? The time has come. :)

I am now writing full time and couldn't be more thrilled. To share in my excitement, I'd love to help you polish your work for upcoming contests or querying, or both. 'Tis the contest season, right?

I'll pick five entries to critique their query and first five pages of the manuscript. I'm open to all fiction as I have experience writing and critiquing MG, YA, and Adult fiction.

It's easy to enter. In the comments below, just leave:

-Your name
-Your Twitter handle
-The genre and category of your manuscript
-A sentence or two about your manuscript
-The first sentence of your manuscript


It'll look something like this:

-Rachel Pudelek
-@rachelpud
-Adult Urban Fantasy
-When huldra Allura's sister is abducted, she recruits the help of her enemies--the succubi, harpies, mermaids, and rusalki--to rescue her sister and destroy the organization responsible.
-My prey, a five foot-ten Caucasian male, ordered a double shot pumpkin spiced latte as he tapped his pointer finger on the counter. 


I can't wait to read what you all are working on! Good luck!

(Offer ends 12:00 am on June 28th, PST.) 


14 comments:

  1. Ok now I want a pumpkin spiced latte!!!

    I wish you a fantastic Monday :)

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  2. Woo hoo! Such a generous offer for us floundering fish, lol.
    - Jeannette Smejkal
    - @folioroad
    -YA Dark Fantasy
    - Sixteen-year-old Celia Sand inks tattoos for the devil. To escape her servitude, she’ll need ink, lies, & the help of a mad carnival troupe.
    - Another question mark bloomed on Celia’s forearm, bigger and bolder than the others, silently screaming at her.

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  3. Awesome! Thanks for the chance.

    Kaelan Rhywiol
    @KaelanRhy
    Adult Scifi Erotic Romance

    Kat is a genetic construction and a slave, Mael is her trainer in the erotic arts. This is a polyamorous, kinky romance set in a futuristic world colonized by humans who play with genetic manipulation.

    No one caught her and held her close upon her rebirth to consciousness.

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  4. Susan Monroe McGrath
    @sumomcgrath
    -YA Contemporary Fantasy
    -Modern-day retelling of the Greek Cassandra myth.

    I am not crazy.

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  5. Maxym Martineau
    @maxymmckay
    - Adult Fantasy
    - When Harlyn is captured and forced into indentured servitude, she has to rely on her succubi talents to escape the guild and her sadistic handler.
    - I'd always been terrible with turf wars.

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  6. Tim Collins
    @retrowallst
    YA - Dark, supernatural
    -Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is a cliché for most, but for bullied teenager Marc Cheeks, it is about to change his whole life.

    “What if zombies could have babies?”

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  7. -Rosalyn Baker
    -@therrbaker
    -NA Romance
    -When a disabled tattoo artist battling his own demons falls in love, will he let his limitations or his heart call the shots?
    -"You almost died, Genevieve."

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  8. John Berkowitz
    @John_Berkowitz
    MG - Contemporary Fantasy
    Twelve-year-old Cat’s fantasies come true when the faerie-folk she sees turn out to be real. Now to save them she must race for the crown against a power-hungry goblin with an army and a plan.

    An Ogre. Obviously.

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  9. Lindsay Eckert
    -@Lindsay_Eckert
    -Adult Dark Fantasy
    -When Kayda is exiled, she seeks answers to her cursed power. Instead she finds the legend who cursed her, and he demands a life-long cost.
    -"It was a sodden spring evening that drowned courage with fear."

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  10. -Taylor Skvarek (Adalyn Grace)
    -@AdalynGrace_
    -YA Sci-fi
    -DONOR is a young adult sci-fi which revolves around a society that has become dependent upon The Donor Center, a deceitful corporation that breeds and supplies organ donors.
    -“The most important thing to remember,” the Operator reminded, agitation evident in the consistent drumming of his fingertips against the limousine’s leather seats, “is that, no matter how real they may appear, the Donor patients that you will meet are not human.”

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  11. -Taylor Skvarek (Adalyn Grace)
    -@AdalynGrace_
    -YA Sci-fi
    -DONOR is a young adult sci-fi which revolves around a society that has become dependent upon The Donor Center, a deceitful corporation that breeds and supplies organ donors.
    -“The most important thing to remember,” the Operator reminded, agitation evident in the consistent drumming of his fingertips against the limousine’s leather seats, “is that, no matter how real they may appear, the Donor patients that you will meet are not human.”

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  12. Wow, this is so nice of you! I'm always touched by the generosity of the Pitch Wars community.

    Name: Raina Xin
    Twitter: @xinraina
    Genre: MG Adventure with sci-fi and fantasy elements (still working on categorizing it)
    About: Ten years after Santa has revealed his existence to humanity and risen to power, a twelve-year-old aspiring journalist and her friends must bring down Santa's secret global surveillance program after accidentally finding out about it on a school trip to the North Pole.
    1st Line: "There are three things you need to know."

    Thanks again for doing this!

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  13. -Kelly Barina
    - @kbarina113
    -YA Fantasy
    -Pitch: When Excalibur is stolen, Vael must recover it. If he fails, war will consume Camelot. If he succeeds, he’ll lose his brother.
    -1st line: As I hurried down the castle’s vast stone corridor to meet my half-brother for the first time, his name echoed around me, whispered like a curse: Mordred.
    Thanks so much for offering the critique! That's so nice of you. :)

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