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Critiques 4 U!

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Happy October, people! The leaves may be changing where you are, or, if you’re me, it’s still hotter than Hades. Regardless, the writing and critiquing must go on, so let’s get to our monthly first-page contest, shall we?

CONTEST IS CLOSED. SEE YOU NEXT MONTH!

If you’re working on a first page (in any genre except erotica) and would like some objective feedback, please leave a comment. Any comment :). As long as the email address associated with your WordPress account/comment profile is up-to-date, I’ll be able to contact you if your first page is chosen. Just please know that if I’m unable to get in touch with you through that address, you’ll have to forfeit your win.

Two caveats:

  ▪    Please be sure your first page is ready to go so I can critique it before next month’s contest rolls around. If it needs some work and you won’t be able to get it to me right away, let me ask that you plan on entering the next contest, once any necessary tweaking has been taken care of.

  ▪    I’d like to be able to use portions of winning submissions as illustrations in an upcoming presentation on first pages. By entering the Critiques 4 U contest, you’ll be granting permission for me to use small writing samples only (no author names or book titles).

Three commenters’ names will be randomly drawn and posted tomorrow morning. If you win, you can email me your first page and I’ll offer my feedback. 

We run this contest on a monthly basis, so if you’d like to be notified when the next opportunity comes around, consider subscribing to our blog (see the left-hand sidebar). Best of luck!

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  2. BECCA PUGLISI says

    Ok! The winners for this month are Lisa Carlisle, Katelyn, and Amanda H. I’ll be in touch shortly with you three.

    Thanks for entering, everyone! Enjoy the fall weather (if you get it where you live), and I’ll see you next month :).

  4. Sara Beth says

    Super awesome thanks for offering these every month. Very fun. Also I love fall soo much. It’s been unusually warm here, but I can see all the leaves changing, and I Love it. I can’t wait to take photos

  7. Bonnie Woodward says

    I’d love to have my work critiqued. I can’t improve if I don’t know what is wrong. Thanks!

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  16. Janet Wright says

    Thanks for offering this chance for winning a first page critique. That would be really useful to me as I’m struggling with revising my story’s opening.

  18. Liz Searle says

    Legend has it (although probably a rather recent legend), that if you look into the mirror and say “Pumpkin Spice Latte” three times a suburban white girl in yoga pants will appear and tell you everything she loves about fall.

    (You said “any comment.”) :>)

  19. Ana says

    Hello. Are you guys the only ones who read the first page or do you post it on this blog as well to share the feedback?

    Kind regards.

  20. Pam Martin says

    Need help on my finished fiction book! Lost my critique group here which helped so much. It is about a woman who owns an Italian restaurant and she is related to a mobster and I hope lots of action plus a little romance.

  27. Beverly King says

    I look forward to having my first page of women’s fiction critiqued by you.
    Thanks for the opportunity.

    Beverly

    • ANGELA ACKERMAN says

      It’s in the post?

      “If you’re working on a first page (in any genre except erotica) and would like some objective feedback, please leave a comment. Any comment :). As long as the email address associated with your WordPress account/comment profile is up-to-date, I’ll be able to contact you if your first page is chosen.”

  35. Renee Wildes says

    Would love for you to see the first page of the sci fi romance story I want to send to Champagne Book Group after they reopen to submissions on January first.

  36. Anne Greening says

    I have just finished extensively re-writing the first chapter of my romantic novel, and would value your comment on the first page. May I send you the first page for consideration for this contest? Sorry, I was unsure whether I could just go ahead and send you my script, so thought I’d better ask first.

    Many thanks.

  38. Ruchama Burrell says

    I’ve been living with/working on my WIP for literally years. My first page would love to have a critique.