Do you love young adult stories? Did you adore Kody Keplinger's The D.U.F.F?
Well, her latest is coming out in a few days, but you can be ahead of the pack if you enter the contest over at Noveltee(n)
Click on http://novelteenagers.blogspot.com/2011/08/novelteen-kody-keplinger-and-shut-out.html
Good Luck!
Leave a comment and I'll gift you one of my novels or a subscription to my Wellness Ezine.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
New inexpensive e-books in fiction and nonfiction
Check out the links to your right for inexpensive Kindle and other e-books. Each book includes not only the one you choose, but sample chapters from other books we've published, and a group discussion guide for fiction. In case you find a book or two that interest(s) you, you'll find links to how to purchase them and read more about the book(s).
Pssst...pass it along.
Keep reading...
Carolyn
Pssst...pass it along.
Keep reading...
Carolyn
Friday, July 8, 2011
ELEVATOR PITCH CONTEST!
Get your YA novel elevator pitch ready and mosey on over to YAtopia at http://tinyurl.com/3g9w8kp for more specifics. It's not hard and super-agent Bree Ogden is judging the contest. You might even get to send your manuscript to her if she likes your pitch!
Good luck, everybody!
Keep writing and reading...
Carolyn
Good luck, everybody!
Keep writing and reading...
Carolyn
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
New Contest! at (www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog)
Do you write upmarket women's fiction or know someone who does?
What is upmarket women's fiction, you say?
According to @chucksambuchino,who's in charge of the competition, it means "any high-quality fiction that is written for women and/or written for book clubs and/or is women-centric; may be general women's fiction (Jodi Picoult or Nicholas Sparks), women-focused suspense (Laura Lippman), etc. This does include any category romances and romantic suspense, so please do not send those."
This contest is for you.
Sponsored by Writers' Digest, it just requires a couple hundred words of a completed manuscript as your ticket to being critiqued by awesome judge, Weronika Janczuk, a literary agent at Lynn C. Franklin Associates and get a one-year-s subscription to Writer's Market (%50 value)
So, get over there by June 26th to be considered!
Keep writing!
Carolyn
What is upmarket women's fiction, you say?
According to @chucksambuchino,who's in charge of the competition, it means "any high-quality fiction that is written for women and/or written for book clubs and/or is women-centric; may be general women's fiction (Jodi Picoult or Nicholas Sparks), women-focused suspense (Laura Lippman), etc. This does include any category romances and romantic suspense, so please do not send those."
This contest is for you.
Sponsored by Writers' Digest, it just requires a couple hundred words of a completed manuscript as your ticket to being critiqued by awesome judge, Weronika Janczuk, a literary agent at Lynn C. Franklin Associates and get a one-year-s subscription to Writer's Market (%50 value)
So, get over there by June 26th to be considered!
Keep writing!
Carolyn
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Major Trends in MG and YA Books - What do Editors Want?
Hi There,
What do editors at the major NY publishing houses say they want? Translation: if you write these kinds of books and do it well, they'll probably be snatched up by publishers. If you want to read these kinds of books, you're in luck because they'll probably get published.
Bear in mind, this is one agent's survey. You can find responses from the editors in more depth over on Mandy Hubbard's livejournal.com blog.
Editors want graphic novels, humor, magical realism, big books for middle grade kids. Think Homeward Bound and any kind of animal stories. I belong to a critique group and just critiqued a dog story take off on Star Trek. Not my cup of tea, but I bet it'll get published.
For young adult books, for girls (most teen boys don't read, I'm told), ghost stories, especially creepy and gothic, psychological thrillers, blended genres (maybe urban fantasy and ghosts?) fantasy, but not epic fantasy, and contemporary stories like Anna and the French Kiss and Perfect Chemistry. Editors are still looking for paranormal romance, but only if it's kick-ass. History is a tough sell for either middle grade or young adult.
Boy young adult is tough unless it also appeals to girls. I guess that means throw in one chapter written by a boy and the next by a girl and alternate them. That might help get your book sold/read.
Here's a shocker, at least for me, ALL THE EDITORS like Chime by Frannie Billingsley. I think it starts out with something like "I should be hanged." and then goes on for pages to tell why she should be hanged.
Again, I don't get it, but then, my writing runs to the humorous.
Other titles All editors liked include Boyfriend List, White Car, and Jellicoe Road.
So that's your trends list for this year.
Let me know which of these you read or write and let's start our own trends list.
For Books...
Carolyn
What do editors at the major NY publishing houses say they want? Translation: if you write these kinds of books and do it well, they'll probably be snatched up by publishers. If you want to read these kinds of books, you're in luck because they'll probably get published.
Bear in mind, this is one agent's survey. You can find responses from the editors in more depth over on Mandy Hubbard's livejournal.com blog.
Editors want graphic novels, humor, magical realism, big books for middle grade kids. Think Homeward Bound and any kind of animal stories. I belong to a critique group and just critiqued a dog story take off on Star Trek. Not my cup of tea, but I bet it'll get published.
For young adult books, for girls (most teen boys don't read, I'm told), ghost stories, especially creepy and gothic, psychological thrillers, blended genres (maybe urban fantasy and ghosts?) fantasy, but not epic fantasy, and contemporary stories like Anna and the French Kiss and Perfect Chemistry. Editors are still looking for paranormal romance, but only if it's kick-ass. History is a tough sell for either middle grade or young adult.
Boy young adult is tough unless it also appeals to girls. I guess that means throw in one chapter written by a boy and the next by a girl and alternate them. That might help get your book sold/read.
Here's a shocker, at least for me, ALL THE EDITORS like Chime by Frannie Billingsley. I think it starts out with something like "I should be hanged." and then goes on for pages to tell why she should be hanged.
Again, I don't get it, but then, my writing runs to the humorous.
Other titles All editors liked include Boyfriend List, White Car, and Jellicoe Road.
So that's your trends list for this year.
Let me know which of these you read or write and let's start our own trends list.
For Books...
Carolyn
Saturday, January 22, 2011
8th "Dear Lucky Agent" Contest: Literary Fiction
Send the first 150-200 words of your unpublished, book-length work of literary fiction. You must include a contact e-mail address with your entry and use your real name. Also, submit the title of the work and a logline (one-sentence description of the work) with your entry.
To be eligible you must
To learn more, click on the blog link to your right for Guide to Literary Agents or go to www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog.
Good luck!
P.S. Hurry up! The contest ends January 23rd.
To be eligible you must
To learn more, click on the blog link to your right for Guide to Literary Agents or go to www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog.
Good luck!
P.S. Hurry up! The contest ends January 23rd.
Friday, November 12, 2010
FREE sample chapter of wacky mystery just for you!
Like wacky mysteries?
Go to www.carolynchambersclark.com/id146.html for sample chapter of CANDY, MURDER & ME, complete with one of Cookie's delicious mysteries. When Cookie's not eating candy or consulting with her dachshund, Sigmund Freud, she's solving mysteries, to wacky results.
Enjoy!
Carolyn
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Go to www.carolynchambersclark.com/id146.html for sample chapter of CANDY, MURDER & ME, complete with one of Cookie's delicious mysteries. When Cookie's not eating candy or consulting with her dachshund, Sigmund Freud, she's solving mysteries, to wacky results.
Enjoy!
Carolyn
If link doesn't show up as clickable on your screen, highlight it, and copy it into your browser address line at the top of this page.
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