CONTEST IS CLOSED
Happy 2015, everyone! I hope you’re getting your January groove on, making goals or resolutions or whatever it is that gets you going in the New Year. I’m sure that some of you are wanting to rework that opening page or fine-tune those editing skillz. And if that’s the case, you’re in luck. ‘Cause it’s time for Critiques 4 U!
If you’re agonizing over that first page and you wouldn’t mind me chainsawing taking a gander at it, leave a comment that includes:
1) your email address
2) the working title of your WIP
3) its genre (no erotica, please)
4) the intended audience
ONLY ENTRIES THAT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED.
3 commenters’ names will be drawn and posted tomorrow. If you win, you can email me your first page and I’ll offer my feedback. Best of luck!
Becca Puglisi is an international speaker, writing coach, and bestselling author of The Emotion Thesaurus and its sequels. Her books are available in five languages, are sourced by US universities, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, editors, and psychologists around the world. She is passionate about learning and sharing her knowledge with others through her Writers Helping Writers blog and via One Stop For Writers—a powerhouse online library created to help writers elevate their storytelling.
Crystal Wells says
Crystalwellsauthor@gmail.com
Christmas with Hollywood
Contemporary Romance
Romance Readers
BECCA PUGLISI says
Thanks for entering, everyone! The contest is now closed, and the winners are…
Caerlynn Nash
Joan Hall
Tamara Meyers
Thanks for entering. I’ll see you next month :).
Isabelle says
Thank you for giving us the opportunity. =) Congratulations to the winners. Hope to see you in stores soon. =D
Chrissie says
croach@gurwin.org
I LIKE THEM DEAD
Mystery/Romance
Adult
Thank You!
Lidy says
Hope I’m not too late
lidywilks@outlook.com
Harbingers of El Tinor
Sword and sorcery/low fantasy
Young adult
JC Martell says
I’m not trying to stuff the ballot box!! I forgot to tell you what a generous and SPECIAL opportunity this is.
BECCA PUGLISI says
Lol. Thanks, JC! Best of luck 🙂
JC Martell says
BEING NORMAL
Women’s Fiction
Women 40+
Lesa says
Thanks for the kind offer! I’ve been fussing over this for quite a while now.
FAIRY-TELLS (working title)
sci-fi romantasy
YA, and probably woman in general
Donna says
donnaweidner@gmail.com
RETURN OF SNOWY OWL
contemporary fiction
Middle Grade
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! for the opportunity!
Ellen Pridmore says
Email: elpridmore@comcast.net
Working Title: The Whispering Tale Of Vine Street
Genre: Children’s Fiction
Audience: Ages 4-7
Thank you for this opportunity!
Pascal Inard says
Email: inard@internode.on.net
Working Title: The Memory Snatcher
Genre: Science fiction detective
Audience: Adult
Thank-you for such a wonderful opportunity!
Inger says
Email: inger@creatingthestory.com
Working Title: The Kingdom Of Plants
Genre: Kids Fantasy Fiction
Audience: Middle Readers
Thank-you for such a wonderful opportunity 🙂
Joan Hall says
Email: joan@joanhallwrites.com
Working Title: Hidden Intentions
Genre: Suspense
Audience: Adult
Tara Ashlyn says
1) Email address: TaraAshlyn@yahoo.com
2) Working Title: Fawn Hollow
3) Genre: Romantic Suspense/ Thriller
4) Intended Audience: New Adult
Thank you so much for this opportunity. This is my first novel attempt..here is to dreams coming true! It is AWESOME that you guys are doing this!
Cheryl Carter says
Email Address: CRCarter@iserv.net
Working title of WIP: Infinity’s Discovery
Genre: Fantasy
Intended audience: Adult
July L. says
Is this over? Hopefully not yet.
1) julylumantas@gmail.com
2) Breath: The Lost Prestige
3) Fantasy Romance
4) Young Adult
BECCA PUGLISI says
Nope, you’re just in time. I’ll be choosing winners in the morning :).
Jeannie Hagy says
Email: njhagy@yahoo.com
Working Title: Damaged Goods
Genre: YA Contemporary
Audience: Teens
Thank you!
Barbara Johnson says
email: johnsonbarbarar@yahoo.com
Title: The Wife In Law
Genre: Women’s Lit
Audience: Women
Thanks for this opportunity.
Annie says
email: valiera@yahoo.com
working title: The Gladiator and the Guard
genre: speculative fiction/action adventure
audience: YA
Thank you so much – for this and everything helpful you share with us!
BECCA PUGLISI says
It’s my pleasure, Annie. Good luck!
T. Gemmell says
Actually, I would love a critique.
I call my project ‘My Uncle, His Basement, and the Disaster That Followed’. For the most part it is fantasy, but borders on steampunk. It is intended to be MG, hopefully for the male readers. If you are interested my contact is gemmell.t.r at gmail dot com.
Katherine Cowley says
Email: cowley.k.e@gmail.com
Title: Electric Alibi
Genre: Steampunk/Science Fiction
Audience: Adult
Kimberly Bea says
Email: beax0002@umn.edu
Working title: Walking on Knives
Genre:fantasy/fairy tale
Audience: YA
Thank you!
Tamara Meyers says
email ~ tameyers@frontiernet.net
title ~ gold rush (I’m dreadful at titles, so it’s more identification than title)
genre ~ historical fiction / romance
audience ~ adult
Susannah says
Appreciate the opportunity!
Email: baroquehorses1@aol.com
Working Title: The Penumbrae Chronicles: Origin
Genre: Fantasy
Intended Audience: Fantasy with adult themes.
Henry J. Kaye says
Email – HenryJamesKaye@gmail.com
Working Title – Starting Over
Genre – Contemporary Fiction
Intended audience – Adult
Aniko Rajci says
1) Email: aniko.rajci@gmail.com
2) Title: The Water Still Rules
3) Genre: Fantasy
4) Audience: YA
Great opportunity, thank you!
BECCA PUGLISI says
You’re welcome. Good luck!
Isabelle says
Email: icrusoe@live.se
Working Title: Killer Queen
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Audience: New Adult
Evelyn Puerto says
My email: evelyninusa [at] hotmail [dot] com
Working title: Raising Fear
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adult
Thanks so much!
H K F says
1) aiar shai (at) gmail dot com
2) Osha
3) fantasy
4) adult
Carrie-Anne says
E-mail: CarrieAnne79 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Working Title: And Aleksey Lived
Genre: Alternative history, historical fiction, saga
Intended Audience: Adults, mature teenagers, Russophiles
Francisca T. says
Email: faraway031@yahoo.com
Working Title: Spark
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: New Adult
Dyanne Conner says
Email: m.conner@sbcglobal.net
Working Title: Sizzle and Burn
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Audience: Adult
Mary Jo Caffrey says
Thanks for this opportunity!
Email: wufslam@cox..net
Title: The Curious Case of Humpty Dumpty
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adult
R. E. Hunter says
Email: r.e.hunter2012[at]gmail[dot]com
Title: Hydra
Genre: Techno-thriller
Intended audience: Adult
Elizabeth Rash says
1) your email address -lizrash@gmail.com
2) the working title of your WIP -Grandma’s Prophecy
3) its genre (no erotica, please) -Memoir Novel
4) the intended audience- New Adult
Thank you! I’m stuck and could most definitely use the feedback.
Aften Brook Szymanski says
Email: af10ski@gmail.com
WIP: Break Up Protocol
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Audience: Clean enough for readers of any age, aimed at high school or college aged readers.
Amber Troyer says
Email: atroyer77 (@) gmail.com
Working Title: Terrapin
Genre: Sci-fi Thriller
Target Audience: YA
Thank you for the opportunity of winning a critique!
AJ Lauer (@ayjaylauer) says
It looks like my first comment didn’t go through.. sorry if this ends up duplicated
email: frodofrogaj@yahoo.com
Title: Ringer
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: adult
Thanks for the opportunity!
Barbara Rogers says
Thanks for this opportunity!
Email: brogers14@uco.edu
Working Title: The Evolution of a Girl
Genre: Woman’s Lit
Audience: Women 18+
AJ Lauer (@ayjaylauer) says
email: frodofrogaj@yahoo.com
Working Title: Ringer
Genre: Science Fiction
Intended Audience: adult
I’d love you to take your chainsaw to it 🙂
Loury Trader says
Working Tittle: Immerse
Genre: YA Dystopian
Intended Audience: 13+
Thank you.
Heidi says
Email: HAULRICH5@GMAIL.COM
Working Title: Something Old
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Intended Audience: women, 25-45
Sue Coletta says
Title: MARRED
Genre: psychological thriller/mystery
Audience: Adult
Email: suecoletta@crimewriterblog.com
Thank you!
Sherry says
Thank you!
Email: sherrysoule AT att DOT net
Working Title: IRRESISTIBLE MISTAKE
Genre: New Adult Romantic Suspense
Audience: 18 and up
Feather Stone says
Thank you for this opportunity to receive a critique of perhaps the most important page of a novel.
Email address: featherstone.author@gmail.com
WIP: Forbidden
Genre: Suspense / International Crime / Romance
Audience: Adult men and women, Multicultural audience
Feather Stone, Author
Diane Coleman says
Working title: Mountains to Metropolis: The Elbow River Watershed
Genre: non-fiction
Audience: adult, high school, interested in environment
Judith Schiller says
So wonderful of you to take the time to do this! And it’s fun also!
schiller@emily.net
Walks Like Rain
Romantic Thriller
Women
Laura L. Weller says
Dear Ms Puglisi,
My writing contact is lauralfw@verizon.net. “Wild Hope” is an in-process YA contemporary novel aimed primarily at female readers age fourteen and up, with male readers kept in mind.
Best Regards,
Laura L. Weller
Caerlynn Nash says
Email: penntonic@gmail.com
Title: The Rainbow Stone (Chapter 1)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Audience: 16+
Great idea. Thanks for allowing me to participate. I have a full first draft of my novel, and I’m on my third re-write of Chapter 1.
Cynthia Stacey says
Hey this is awesome of you. Thanks 🙂
cynthia2729@live.ca
Souls of the Chimera
YA Paranormal
Telfer Rose says
Thank you for such a great opportunity!
Email – telferrose@gmail.com
Wip – Blood of the Ancient – an altered existence
Genre – sci-fi, fantasy, adventure
Audience – 13+
Anne K says
Title: I’ll do whatever it takes.
Genre: Women’s short story
Intended audience: Women.
Chris Sarantopoulos says
email: mythos_20@yahoo.com
Title: The Darkening
Genre: Post-apocalyptic Horror
Audience: adult
Thank you!
Nicole Zoltack says
Thank you for the chance!
Nicole.Zoltack@gmail.com
HIS SOUL PURPOSE
Paranormal Romance
Adult
Janet Hartman says
That first page is so important! I’ve reworked and shuffled my early chapters multiple times and would love your comments on my current version. I’m feeling pretty comfortable with it but welcome any suggestions on improving the opening to what I hope will be my debut novel.
Janet Hartman
Janet Hartman says
Title: American Gold
Genre: Historical, possibly women’s fiction
Audience: adult, especially those with family members who immigrated to the US in the early 20th century.
Lizzie says
Email: wanderfulworldblog@gmail.com
Working title: “The Way the Land Lies”
Genre: Literary Fiction
Intended audience: Adults
Thank you! 🙂
Leslie Bird Nuccio says
1. lnuccio@earthlink.net
2. “Lyon’s Roar”
3. Paranormal Romantic Suspense
4. Adult, possible New Adult
Sacha Black says
TItle: ‘Bound’ – The Guardians Saga #1
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: YA (17-24)
Sacha black says
Oops! (Sachablack87@gmail.com)
Paula says
HI Becca,
I love Critiques 4 U! My working title is Greylock. The genre is supernatural mystery or what some might call ‘quiet horror’ meaning no conventional violence. The readers are horror readers but also those who enjoy dark fiction with supernatural elements. My email is in the required fields above.
Pat says
I would love the chance to get some feedback on the all important opening of my current WIP…
‘Looking for Heaven’ is a YA novel in an apocalyptic setting.
Thanks for the opportunity, meanwhile back to editing!
Scarlett Kol says
What a great time for this to happen!
1) scarletkol(at)outlook(dot)com
2) Keeper of Shadows
3) Paranormal Romance
4) YA
Sylvia Ike says
1. Chyny18@aol.com
2. The Vengeful Ones
3. New Adult
4. audience age 18 and up
Marianne Sciucco says
mariannesciucco@gmail.com
Swim Season
YA, sports, family
Teens, young adults, swimmers and their families
Sandy Kirby Quandt says
Becca, I have a WIP, “No Easy Choice”, historical fiction written for Middle Grade readers age 8-12. I’d love your thoughts on it. Thanks for the chance to win a first page critique.
Linda Andersen says
Chainsaws welcome!
landersen74@yahoo.com
Peek-a-Boo-Friends
Picture book (3-8)
Alyssa says
Wow, thanks so much for the offer!
Email: alyssa.carlier[at]gmail.com
Working title: Winner Takes All
Genre: literary thriller
Intended audience: adult
Jodi Carmichael says
Hi Angela,
My current WIP is Ford and Ellie’s Mostly Solved Mysteries: Family of Spies. Yes, it is a working title. Likely to be shortened to Ford and Ellie: Family of Spies. It is a middle grade novel.
It is taking me far longer than usual to get through the first draft as I am working two jobs, but as of February 22nd, I’ll be done to one and I want to dive right back into this one and get cracking!
Any feedback, tips, etc, would be most awesome.
Take care,
Jodi
PS Thank for doing this!
Holly Kerr says
Hi! Sure, I’d love you to take a look. My WIP is called You, Me and Him (working title) and it’s a romance, intended for NA. My email is holly@kerr.ca
Hope that’s all you need!
David Wilson says
Email: David@davidkatie.co.uk
Working Title: Aaron Gray and The Dragon War
Genre: Children’s fantasy
Intended Audience: 9-11
Thank you 🙂