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It's that time again! “The Writer’s Voice” is a multi-blog, multi-agent contest
hosted by Brenda Drake, Mónica Bustamante Wagner, Elizabeth Briggs, and me. We’re basing it
on NBC’s singing reality show The Voice, so the four of us will serve as
coaches and select projects for our teams based on their queries and first
pages.
Here’s the timeline:
May
20
May
21
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Everybody
enters the Rafflecopter lottery
The
lottery winners sign up on the widget
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May
21-June 4
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We
select our team members from “The Writer’s Voice” Blogfest
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June
4-18
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We
coach our team members, helping them polish their entries
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June
19
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We
post our team members’ entries on our blogs
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June
23
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Agents
vote for their favorites
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Submissions
To enter, your manuscript must meet two conditions: First, it must be COMPLETE, POLISHED, AND READY TO QUERY, and second, it must be in one of the following genres:
MG
fiction (all genres)
YA fiction (all genres)
NA
fiction (all genres except erotica)
Adult genre fiction (excluding erotica)
Adult genre fiction (excluding erotica)
Adult
literary fiction (including women’s fiction but excluding erotica)
Adult
commercial fiction (including women’s fiction but excluding erotica)
In
other words, we’re accepting pretty much everything this year--except erotica:)
To determine who gets to participate in the blogfest, we’ll hold a single-entry Rafflecopter lottery on Wednesday, May 20. The lottery will remain open for 12 hours, from 9:00 a.m. EDT to 9:00 p.m. EDT, at which point the Rafflecopter will select 200 random winners. Those winners will then sign up for the blogfest on one of Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets the next day, May 21. Once you sign up on the widget, you’ll post YOUR QUERY and THE FIRST 250 WORDS of your manuscript on your blog.
In summary, you must follow these three steps to enter:
1. Enter the Rafflecopter lottery on May 20 during the submission window listed above.
To determine who gets to participate in the blogfest, we’ll hold a single-entry Rafflecopter lottery on Wednesday, May 20. The lottery will remain open for 12 hours, from 9:00 a.m. EDT to 9:00 p.m. EDT, at which point the Rafflecopter will select 200 random winners. Those winners will then sign up for the blogfest on one of Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets the next day, May 21. Once you sign up on the widget, you’ll post YOUR QUERY and THE FIRST 250 WORDS of your manuscript on your blog.
In summary, you must follow these three steps to enter:
1. Enter the Rafflecopter lottery on May 20 during the submission window listed above.
2. Sign up on the widget on May 21 if you win the lottery.
3. Post your query and the first 250 words of your manuscript on your blog.
Selections
We’re building our teams via “The Writer’s Voice” Blogfest, so YOU MUST HAVE A BLOG TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CONTEST. We don’t care if you’ve had it for five years or five minutes; we just want to be able to fight over you in public:)
We coaches will review the entries and leave a comment on your post that says something like, “I want you!” If more than one of us wants you on her team, you’ll have to pick which coach you want to work with.
Coaching
We’ll select our 8 team members by June 4, then spend the next two weeks helping them put a final polish on their entries. You won’t have to take all of our suggestions, of course; we just want to help you make your entry the best that it can be before the agents get a look at it.
3. Post your query and the first 250 words of your manuscript on your blog.
Selections
We’re building our teams via “The Writer’s Voice” Blogfest, so YOU MUST HAVE A BLOG TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CONTEST. We don’t care if you’ve had it for five years or five minutes; we just want to be able to fight over you in public:)
We coaches will review the entries and leave a comment on your post that says something like, “I want you!” If more than one of us wants you on her team, you’ll have to pick which coach you want to work with.
Coaching
We’ll select our 8 team members by June 4, then spend the next two weeks helping them put a final polish on their entries. You won’t have to take all of our suggestions, of course; we just want to help you make your entry the best that it can be before the agents get a look at it.
Each coach will have a guest coach to help her whip your entries into shape, and my guest coach will be the inimitable Anna-Marie McLemore. Anna-Marie's atmospheric THE WEIGHT OF FEATHERS, about two star-crossed teenagers from feuding performing families, comes out this September, and she's got mad revision skills that we're going to rely on.
Voting
On June 19, we’ll post our team members’ queries and first pages on our blogs so that the agents can review them. Here are the awesome agents who’ll be voting on your entries:
Voting
On June 19, we’ll post our team members’ queries and first pages on our blogs so that the agents can review them. Here are the awesome agents who’ll be voting on your entries:
Sara Megibow and Renee Nyen of kt literary
The agents will vote for their favorites on June
23. Each vote will count as a partial or full request depending on how many
votes the entry receives. If an entry receives 1 or 2 votes, those votes will
count as partial requests. If an entry receives 3 or more votes, those votes
will count as full requests.
Voting will stay open until 9:00 a.m. EDT on
June 24, at which point we’ll determine which coach’s team received the most
votes. That coach will win bragging rights for time immemorial, and everyone
who received requests will be able to submit their materials to all the agents
who voted for them. These votes represent serious interest in your project, so
PLEASE DON’T ACCEPT AN OFFER OF REPRESENTATION BEFORE GIVING “THE WRITER’S
VOICE” AGENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A COMPETING OFFER.
So get those queries and first pages polished
up, then meet us back here on Wednesday, May 20, between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00
p.m. EDT. We can’t wait to read your entries! (And of course, if you have any
questions, feel free to ask them in the comments below.)
2 comments:
When will be the next round held?
Thanks for stopping by, thelotter review. We coaches decided to make this year's round of "The Writer's Voice" the last round for now, so we're not planning to do it again. This was the first year in which all four of us were under contract during "The Writer's Voice," and we found it was difficult to coordinate all four of our schedules. We figure it's just going to get worse as we publish more books. I'm so sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
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