I write because my passion is to tell people stories.
Stories of love and hate, of fear and hope. Stories where good people do bad things and bad people do good things. Stories of lives that are unexpected, horrible and beautiful.
I write these things because I believe they are true in real life, therefore should be in fiction too. But not matter what I write, I always seem to be asking 'why'?
Literary Agent Colleen Lindsay is holding a neat contest on her blog.
Essentially, she got tried of people trying to pitch their novels to her over Twitter and one of her friend said she should hold a contest.
The rules are:
All queries must be 140 characters or less. Including punctuation and spaces between words. Just like on Twitter!
One query per person.
Queries must be left in the comments field of her post. Don’t spam her Twitter feed!
Contest is open from now until midnight EST on Thursday night.
Top five queries will be posted on the blog.
Grand prize is a query and first chapter critique.
So here is what I entered. Is about my novel in the works “Ice Debt”. I left her a note so she knows that I don’t have a completed novel, but I would still love that first chapter critique:
The Ice Age is ending. Gen-Mod Healers are fleeing, leaving the Rebels to defend the North. Except Kylee who now owes them a life debt.
I’d love comments.
You can post your own 140 character query her blog here: http://theswivet.blogspot.com/
I have spent the last week working on two projects. One you are aware of (my short story called “Gift of Talismans”), the other I announce on this blog today.
On the website called Zeros 2 Heroes, a community of like minded comic book geeks (of both the writer and artist kind) have come together to create a place for the aspiring writer to pitch their greatest works. The pitches are reviewed by peers within the community and every once and a while a contest is put together and a panel of experts are called in to help make one or more pitches a reality.
Right now there is a contest called Direct to Development 2. The community is asked to vote on their favourite pitches and the top six (three this Friday and three next Friday) are selected as finalists. That panel of experts I mentioned will review the 6 pitches and pick one that will have a 22 page web-comic developed. After that, the web-comic and the pitch are sent to publishing companies (from Teletoon to Dark Horse comics) to see what happens.
After much thought, and since I have had no luck at all getting someone to help me out with my Graphic Novel idea “Beloved Child”, I have decided to throw my story into the ring.
If you are interested in checking out my pitch for the Direct to Development 2 contest you can go HERE!
I plan on posting the script pages tomorrow. I know I’m cutting it close, since the first round of the contest ends on Friday, but I have faith that it will be worth it.
