It Was A Dark and Stormy Blogfest Contest…Also: a Crusade and the winner of some swag!

Brenda Drake is hosting a first line blogfest today and tomorrow. Be sure to check out her blog for a list of participants!

What’s up for grabs? A query critique, a 25 pages + query critique, and a 50 pages + query critique by none other than Weronika Janczuk, writer and agent with D4EO Lit Agency!

Best of luck everyone!

Now, my entry:

• Working Title: ZODIAC COLLECTOR
• Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy/Adventure
• First line: The Renaissance Faire wrecks my birthday every year.

(My first sentence is mind-blowing in its awesomeness, right? LOL!)

Alrightly, now the comments and critiques y’all give help me to perfect the line so I can enter it in the contest on Brenda’s blog on February 9th! Thanks in advance!

Don’t forget to check out Lydia’s Medical Monday post and Sarah’s psychology related post!

Wait–I’m not finished!

Drum roll please…And the winner of swag from Michelle McClean’s Homework Helpers: Essays and Term Papers is:

DORIS!!!!!

EDIT: Doris has claimed her prize! I’ll forward the info to Michelle so she can mail your swag!!!

AND…

Have you seen Rachael Harrie’s Blog Crusade?! Click here to check it out. This is the second “annual” Crusade designed to connect writers and bloggers through the interwebz. Lookin’ forward to seeing you there!

Woot! Woot! Wednesday: The Three-fer–Thanks for an award, rounding up the Sisterhood blog chain, and Snoopy was on to something here, I’m sure!

I’d like to give a BIG thanks to the super awesome & sweet, Young Adult writer and blogger, Heather Howland, for nominating me for the Stylish Blogger Award! Thanks, Heather, you’re the best! And now I feel totally fancy! Sa-weet!!!!!!

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Deb’s up this week sharing her writerly goals for 2011. Pop on over and check it out!

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In case you haven’t seen it yet, Brenda Drake is hosting a first line blogfest contest on February 7th and 8th. Be sure to check out her blog for a list of participants! Oh, and sign up too!

The deal is: Sign up, post your first line on your blog on the 7th & 8th for comments/critiques, then enter your perfected first line in the comments of Brenda’s blog on February 9th for the contest part.

What’s up for grabs? A query critique, a 25 pages + query critique, and a 50 pages + query critique by none other than Weronika Janczuk, writer and agent with D4EO Lit Agency!

Best of luck everyone!