Friday, April 10, 2009

Spilling Secrets...

You know the agent-judged contest I've been telling you about? It opens this Monday on The QueryTracker Blog, and all you have to submit is a hook (a one sentence description of your book.) The prizes haven't been officially announced, but I'm going to spill about them anyway.

Agent Joanna Stampfel-Volpe will consider your full manuscript.

Yep, that's the prize. How cool is that?

Runners-up will get to submit partials.

So be sure to check out the blog for all the details, and let me know if you have any questions!

16 comments:

J.N. Future Author said...

W-W-WHAT!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!

Has this person already seen your manuscript? I don't have one, but I will totally enter to get him to consider yours!!!

J.N. Future Author said...

her* I meant her! Joanna is a girls name, so I don't know why I said he! sorry!

Suzette Saxton said...

J.N. Future Author, you are so incredibly sweet! I would hug you if you were here. Because I'm an author of the QTblog, I'm ineligible to enter the contest. But thank you so much for thinking of me!

Michelle D. Argyle said...

Holy cow, that's cool! Thanks for sharing early. :D

Suzette Saxton said...

Lady G, are you planning on entering? I know you have a couple of complete mss.

Jennifer said...

Le gasp! Thanks so much for sharing! I'm totally going to enter. :)

Suzette Saxton said...

Yay Jen! I'm so glad you'll be entering! I have more than one friend who has found their agent by winning a contest.

Good luck! ;)

Jessica Nelson said...

HooBoy! The pressure is on now to produce a worthy one sentence hook. LOL Thanks for letting us know!

Anonymous said...

WOW! I am so excited about this. Not just for me, but all of us! Good luck everyone!

Steph :)

Suzette Saxton said...

Good luck, all of you! I'm rooting for you!

Cynde L. Hammond said...

Oh, how I wish my manuscript was completed!

I should take a shotgun to my computer for eating 35K of it because it would probably have been done at this point....but on the other hand, by being forced to rewrite it in this way, my manuscript is probably much better than it would have been.

Maybe I'll be ready the next time something like this comes around.

Cynde
http://cyndes-got-the-write-stuff.blogspot.com/

Suzette Saxton said...

No worries, Cynde. We have several contests lined up, approximately one per month.

If I had a shotgun I'd shoot your computer for you. *wink*

I sure do like your blog!

Tess said...

Yes, it is a very exciting contest. I sure do love the query tracker blog. You guys do an amazing job!

ps - thanks for visiting my blog. I'm a bit of a newbie and sincerely appreciate those like you who offer direction and support!

Suzette Saxton said...

Awwww, thanks Tess, you are so sweet. I like your blog! You are off to a great start. I will pass you kind words about the QTblog on to all the authors.

Linda Banche said...

Suzette, thanks for coming over to my blog. It gets lonely all by itself.

As for the contest, thanks for running it. Come Monday, we'll see how we fare.

Suzette Saxton said...

Your blog is lovely, Linda. Thanks for coming over to mine! :)