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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Can We Guess Your Character's Age? Contest ...we have winners and more!!!
It has been a whirlwind of fun on the blog lately, and it's because of all the fantabulous writers and friends who participated in this blogfest. I just want to say how much you all mean to me! Thanks for all the positive comments and critique love you sent to your fellow writers. Each of you should be proud of the work you've done. Congratulations to everyone! You may not have won the prize, but you're that much closer to achieving your goal of getting published.
I want to give aBIG HUGE SHOUT OUT to our wonderful judge, prize giver, editor, literary agent assistant, writer, blogger, journalist, Brazilian, insomniac, and word nerd extraordinaire, Gabriela Lessa! Show her your thanks by following her on twitter and her blog. Not only is she giving up three prizes to the winners but she's added more. Yay!
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And now ... drum roll please ...
We have door prizes (I should just end all my sentences with an exclamation mark - I'm that excited)! Five to be exact. With the help of Random.org we've chosen five winners from the linky sign-up list who will each receive a query critique (no more than 500 words) by Gabriela Lessa...
And Gabriela wanted to acknowledge the following honorable mentions...
#4 Taffy Lovell
#5 Sharon Bayless
#11 1000th.monkey
What Gabriela had to say about her entry ... Another one that not only shows this is a teen, but a younger high school kid. Everything in her actions and her reasoning shows a certain reverence to this head cheerleader, even if she’s hated. Her posture is not that of a senior, and the shock from the rest of the school confirms that. We can easily identify her age.
Character's age: 16
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And Gabriela wanted to acknowledge the following honorable mentions...
#4 Taffy Lovell
#5 Sharon Bayless
#11 1000th.monkey
Gabriela really liked your excerpts and is offering a 15% discount on any one of her services.
And now, the winners ...
1st place and the winner of an edit of first 30 pages + 25% off any services they want to hire is...
What Gabriela had to say about her entry ... Robin manages to catch the teenage spirit here. The vocabulary is appropriate to teenagers without being obvious, full of teen slang. Her character shows a concern with her looks, but it’s not overdone. She has a BFF and school bags, suggesting a teen, but she drives, so she has to be at least 16. Her voice in general made it clear for me that she was not a senior – she doesn’t have that air of superiority seniors usually have. So she had to be just 16. The way she reacts when caught, saying “like an idiot” seals the deal. I knew the exact age instantly and I didn’t need to think it over, but I didn’t feel like the author was hitting me in the head with it either. It flowed naturally. Fantastic!
Character's age: 16
2nd place and winner of an edit of first 20 pages + 20% off any services is ...
Character's age: 16
2nd place and winner of an edit of first 20 pages + 20% off any services is ...
What Gabriela had to say about her entry ... Great example of knowing how to differ an MG from a younger YA. The character’s concerns here and her line of thought show she’s not in high school yet. Every detail – from worrying about the teacher to justifying her actions – scream MG. Very well done.
Character's age: 12
Character's age: 12
What Gabriela had to say about her entry ... Another one that not only shows this is a teen, but a younger high school kid. Everything in her actions and her reasoning shows a certain reverence to this head cheerleader, even if she’s hated. Her posture is not that of a senior, and the shock from the rest of the school confirms that. We can easily identify her age.
Character's age: 16
***All winners please email me at brendadrakecontests@gmail.com and I'll send you instructions on how to collect your winnings.
And don't forget, coming up on the blog in January...
Pitch contest with agent Ammi-Joan Paquette of the Erin Murphy Literary Agency. Joan only accepts submissions by referrals or conferences, so this is a great opportunity to get your work in front of her.
That's it, for now...
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Awesome! Congrats to the winners! And thanks to Brenda and Gabriela. So much fun :) And I learned a ton from this!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to everyone. This was an amazing contest. :)
ReplyDeleteYay, thanks so much for hosting this contest! :)
ReplyDeletePardon me while I hyperventilate.... Wow!!!!!! You guys rock!!! Gabriella, thanks sooooo much!!! Brenda, you really have something going here with the exclamation points!!!! Thanks!!!
ReplyDeleteEveryone's entries were so good-I can't believe I got first!
Fantastic! Thanks to you, Brenda, and Gabriela. And congrats to the winners. One learns much from exercises like this.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the winners and thanks for hosting the contest, Brenda!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, folks! :) And thank you, Brenda.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the winners, honorable mentions, and everyone who entered! Great contest, I enjoyed it a lot.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations everyone! Thanks for hosting, Brenda!! Another fantastic contest, as usual!
ReplyDeleteThanks Brenda, Gabriela, and everyone who helped me with my first page!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to everyone!
I'm very excited for Gabriela to look at my first 10! Thanks again! :)
Congrats everyone! And thanks Brenda for hosting. =) This was fun.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the contest -- it was so great to get a response to the age of my MC from readers -- really made me look back at how she was written. Look forward to the contest in Jan!
ReplyDeleteOh! This is great, thank you! Even if I was just a result of random.org
ReplyDeleteCongrats to everyone!! Great contest, B. Awesome entries everyone!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the winners! Thanks again to Brenda Drake for hosting such an awesome blog contest. Learned a ton and found some great fellow bloggers :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the winners :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for hosting this contest, Brenda! And thank you to Gabriela--especially for the extra prizes--you rock! Definitely looking forward to future contests/blogfests :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats to everyone!!!! And thanks to Brenda and Gabriela for doing this!! :) I'm looking forward to January!! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all! :D
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks again for hosting the contest--it was so much fun. :D
Congrats to all who won!! Thanks, Brenda for holding such an awesome contest!! & woo-hoo! Can't believe I won a door prize!! Thank you again soooo much!! :)
ReplyDeleteI think this is such an interesting idea for a contest, and although I didn't enter I had a lot of fun reading the submissions. Thanks for hosting, Brenda! And congrats to the winners :).
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the winners! Fine writing all around... :)
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks again Brenda and Gabriela. What a great experience this has been. I learned so much, and it was an honor to make it as far as I did with all of you YA and MG writers with my much older character!