Agents, Editors and You: The Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Writers Market Library)
Alan M. Schlein: Find it Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research, Third Edition
Jack Neff: Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript (Writer's Market Library Series)
Kathy, Henderson: Market Guide for Young Writers: Where and How to Sell What You Write
Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2007 (Novel and Short Story Writer's Market)
The deadline is fast-approaching for this year's Independent Publisher Book Awards, a content open to independents in the North American market. Deadline is April 1 with a starting entry fee of $80.
Good luck!
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
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If you are an aspiring children's author, check out this contest from ABC's Children's Picture Book Competition. The grand prize is a royalty-based publishing contract. Internet vote in September 2008 will decide the winner. Entries due Feb. 28, 2008.
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Poets: Check out Writer's Digest's Poetry Awards. Style doesn't matter. It can rhyme, be free verse or haiku -- or your own unique style. Entries must be 32 lines or less. Deadline is Dec. 20. Prizes are:
First Place: $500
Second Place: $250
Third Place: $100
Fourth-Tenth Place: $25
Eleventh-Twenty-Fifth Place: $50 gift certificate to Writer's Digest Books
Winners one through ten will be printed in an upcoming issue of Writer's Digest, and all winners will receive a copy of the 2008 Poet's Market. Click here for guidelines and to enter online!
Good luck!
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
Hurry up and polish that manuscript! Amazon.com is taking the works of undiscovered authors through Nov. 5 for this contest. The prize: a publishing contract from Penguin.
Get details & good luck!
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
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I'm fickle about who sees my work with its in process. I don't want the world to see it until it's ready. (Is it ever really ready?)
But once it's done, where should I send it? Everywhere I turn, there are ads for contests on the Web, in magazines, even hanging on bulletin boards at coffee shops. If I'm picky about who sees my work in progress, I'm even more fanatical about where I send it. I don't want to randomly chose contests and magazines I've never heard of to (hopefully) get some publishing credits (and maybe a nice little prize check to boot). I want my work only in the hands of people who are really interested - and not just some fly-by-night operation.
But how can I tell the difference with the anonymity of the Web?
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. has a great Web resource for picking through the plethora of contest ads to find legit ones you will want to enter. They have great tips to keep writers on the legit contest track.
http://www.sfwa.org/beware/contests.html
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
Got work to submit? Check out PW's submissions calendar for summer contest deadlines. Good luck!
http://www.pw.org/mag/0707/submissioncalendar.htm
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
St. Martin's Minotaur has teamed up with the Mystery Writers of America for the 2007 Best First Crime Novel Competition. Information on this and two other competitions are available at:
http://www.minotaurbooks.com/competitions.html
Good luck!
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
Deadline is June 1 for the Writer's Digest annual writing competition, where your manuscript could win $3,000 and a trip to NYC with agents and editors.
Learn more, or submit your manuscript today.
https://www.writersdigest.com/contests/annual/76th/
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
From www.themysteryplace.com:
Breaking News! AHMM is teaming up with The Wolfe Pack, the official Nero Wolfe appreciation society, to sponsor a new annual writing prize, The Black Orchid Novella Award, to honor an unpublished work of fiction written in the tradition of the Nero Wolfe mystery stories by Rex Stout. Rex Stout was a master of the novella form and published dozens of novellas featuring the corpulent and irascible detective Nero Wolfe and his sidekick Archie Goodwin. Today, the novella is uncommon, though AHMM has a long tradition of publishing novellas. For more information on the contest, including submission guidelines, go to www.NeroWolfe.org.
Good luck!
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
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