undDoes your first scene compel editors and agents to ask for more?
Your opener is the hook that attracts an editor or makes a potential reader decide to purchase your book.
Want feedback on your opening scene? Or possibly have the chance to get the beginning of your book plopped down in front of an agent or editor? Then you should consider this contest! Just look at these fabulous final round judges….
Chick Lit/Mainstream - Nephele Tempest, the Knight Agency
Contemporary - Kate Seaver, Berkley
Historical - Sha-Shana Crichton, Crichton & Associates
Paranormal - Barbara Collins Rosenberg, the Rosenberg Group
Romantic Suspense - Erika Tsang, Avon
QUALIFICATIONS:Open to current unpublished members of RWA (uncontracted manuscripts only). Previous finalists of this contest may not re-enter finalist entries, even in an edited format. If you’re published by a non-recognized RWA publisher, you can still enter.
Entries must be postmarked by midnight June 1, 2006
To get more information and find the entry sheet, visit…..
http://www.gsrwa.org/emerald_city_con/ec_opener/EmeraldCityOpener_2006.htm
*Yes, I am heavily involved with the Seattle chapter of the RWA and the Emerald City Writers Conference! They don’t call me the Diva recruiter for nothin’!*
