Write well. Write often. Edit wisely.
***Winning Entry—Warrior Wench by Marie Andreas***
Congratulations, Marie!
And thanks to all for entering.
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This is it, your opportunity to win a free 30-page edit of your unpublished fiction manuscript.
Ever wanted to see what an editor would do with the first 30 pages of your novel, those 30 pages agents and publishers want to look at before they request a full manuscript? Now’s your chance.
The Editor’s Blog is giving away one free 30-page fiction edit.
The prize is an edit of the first 30 consecutive pages of a novel or novella.
Enter the drawing by adding a comment to this article, as explained below. That’s all there is to it.
Dates
Entries will be accepted from the moment this article is made public until Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 10 pm EDT. The winner will be announced, in this article, on Monday, July 4, 2011.
Read on for the rules and limitations and requirements—
In celebration of the milestone of the 100th blog article on writing and editing at The Editor’s Blog, I’m offering a free edit of the first 30 pages of one unpublished fiction manuscript via a drawing.
How does the drawing work? Each comment on this article, which is the entry form, will serve as an entry for the drawing, and each entry will be numbered in order from one to whatever. The winning entry will be chosen by a random drawing of a number out of all possible choices at random.org. Simple and easy. The winner will be contacted via e-mail and his or her name and manuscript title will be posted on the article.
So . . . if you’d like a chance to win a free edit of the first 30 pages of your fiction manuscript, just enter.
Tell your friends and writing buddies.
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How to enter the drawing for your chance to win—
What you win—
What you guarantee—
Limitations and format—
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When you enter the drawing, you are not subscribing to The Editor’s Blog nor are you signing up for a newsletter or any other service. This is truly a giveaway, no strings attached, to thank my readers for coming to the blog.
Submit your entries now.
If you have questions or comments rather than an entry for the drawing, visit this contest preview article, where you can ask your questions in the comment section.
Good luck and good writing!
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Glad to have y’all. Just a reminder that you don’t need to publicly post your e-mail address. When you add a comment, you include an e-mail address that I can see on the back end.
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Sounds like a good contest. I’ll give it a shot.
Hi, Beth. Thanks for giving out this chance. I’m Keshia Deisra from Indonesia. I have already published 3 novels and just written an urban fantasy unpublished novel manuscript entitled Spectrum. I want to try my luck in this giveaway. Wish me luck!
Title: Assassin’s Choice, epic fantasy
Denyse Loeb
Thanks for the opportunity.
What a great contest! I am an unpublished writer of a YA paranormal manuscript which is currently titled Temptation.
My name is Katie Walthall
Email is katiewalthall AT ymail DOT com
Thank you so much for the opportunity!
Katie 🙂
Count me in, Beth. I’ve got a backlog of manuscripts that could use a second set of eyes.
Thanks for sponsoring a contest!
Olivia
What a generous gift. Thanks for the opportunity.
My Single Title Contemporary MS is called Playing For Keeps, and I am and w/a Terri Osburn. Thanks again and good luck everyone!
PS: Bookmarking this blog!
Great contest, Beth!!
My name is Melinda Collins and I’m an unpublished writer of a paranormal romance/urban fantasy manuscript currently titled ‘Foreseen’.
Email is msexton76 AT hotmail DOT com
Thanks, Beth! 🙂
I’ve got a few you can look at too, Beth, Like The Rogue. What a wonderful way to celebrate!
Sia McKye’s Thoughts…OVER COFFEE
This sounds great. I am D. Alan Lewis. My first novel (a fantasy murder mystery named ‘The Blood in Snowflake garden’)is being released later this year and I’m currently working on a Steampunk/Fantasy novel named ‘The Lightning Bolts of Zeus’
Thank you for this!
My name is Sarah Pearson. My MS ‘Ordinary Joe’, is a YA Urban Fantasy.
And in accordance with the regulations, here’s my second 🙂
Sarah Pearson, MS ‘Procreation Denied’ SciFi.
(I know, terrible title, but it had to be called something for now!)
Hi Beth, my novel is aching for an edit and I have just recently discovered that I am scared of commas, so I can’t edit it myself.
Title: Perfect Parts, literary fiction
This novel too.
Title: Lizzie’s Run, literary fiction
I am writing multi generational novel about three women in what I call an “interrupted” family. Lisa, was five when her mother died and her dad disappeared. Life in a Catholic orphanage was rough on this sensitive girl whose dad was Jewish. These are anti-Semitic times.
Later, the novel will follow her daughters Penny, the dreamer who people peg as crazy; and Star, the teenage queen whose hatred for her mother and sister will have unexpected consequences.
Count me in! A few times since I have a few completed novels :).
Here’s the first:
The Essence of Chaos
Marie Andreas
Epic Fantasy
thanks!
You DID say we could enter more than once – right? Here’s book two (yes, they are all complete ;))
The Glass Gargoyle of the Last Elven King
Marie Andreas
Light fantasy
Marie, I did say you could enter more than one. As many as you have, as long as they meet the conditions laid out here.
Everyone, please remember to include your working title and genre, so I know your entry is an entry and not merely a comment.
(I’ll delete any of my comments before the drawing, so mine don’t get counted as entries.)
Thank Beth! This is what we’ve been waiting for! See you on the 4th.
Title: “His Gift”
Genre: Gentle Fiction
I don’t want to forget ms number two!
Title: “Life and Death”
Genre: Gentle Fiction
Beth, I love your blog! The articles are so timely and helpful to me…and to eveyrone else I’m sure. And what a great celebration idea, to have a contest with a terrific prize.
So put my name in please.
Working title: Ernie’s Story
Genre: Mystery.
Hope I win! Not that I’m wishing losing for everyone else but I wanna win!
wanda
Congrats, Beth, on your 100th post. I would welcome an edit by you.
Title: Episodes – A Life In Fast Forward
Genre: Memoir (biographical novel)
Hi Beth. I’m not quite at the point of having an MS for you to edit, but do want to offer my congratulations on your 100th post.
Excellent! Well then I would be remiss if I ignored mss #three 🙂 And congrats on hitting post 100 btw 🙂
A Curious Invasion
Marie Andreas
Steampunk 🙂
Yeah…well…I actually have four fully completed and in various stages of editing (and needing of said edits)-
So here’s number four 🙂 Thanks again for this chance and a great blog!
Warrior Wench (yeah it’s cheesy- but fits the book ;))
Marie Andreas
SF
THANKS!
What a great opportunity!
My working title is “Fate Fixed” and it is a Young Adult supernatural suspense novel. I just completed it and have been trying to edit, but am in need of a keen eye!
Thanks!
Bonnie Wheeler
But Beth, I have eleventy million manuscripts. I have to pick? I don’t want to enter eleventy million times, so I’ll just enter one.
“Twice Upon A Time”
Time Travel Novella
Awesome! Thanks for doing this 🙂
I write under the name of Lucy V Morgan. The WiP title is BLOOD FIZZ POP and it’s a snarky, sexy urban fantasy set in England.
Awesome contest… Thanks!
Moonlight – A Shifter-Witch Novel
Karen V. Tavares
Paranormal Romance
Karenvtavares@aol.com
Hi Beth. I am so excited by this opportunity. I love this idea to help edit an unpublished manuscript. This give beginners a chance to see how that can work on their own manuscript.
I have one named Irredeemable Angel, I write under Nancy G. and this is a paranormal romance story.
My fingers are crossed to win this. BTW thanks to Olivia Cunning for letting me know on Twitter.
Hi Beth. Me Again. I have so many manuscript that could benefit from this 30 pages edit I don’t know where to start.
I have one named Find me for Love, written under Nancy G. and this is a paranormal romance story too.
My fingers are crossed to win this for either of my MS. BTW thanks to Olivia Cunning for letting me know on Twitter.
Good luck to all and thanks for entering. No more entries will be accepted after this time.
Congratulations to Marie Andreas and Warrior Wench!
Marie has won the first-30 edit for her SF entry, Warrior Wench.
A sincere thank you to all who entered.
Thank you so much Beth! Great blog, great contest :). And I won! LOL- what a wonderful way to start the week. THANKS!
Congratulations Marie, and thanks again Beth for the competition 🙂