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Phenomenal First Pages Contest – Guest Editor Edition

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Hey, wonderful writerly people! It’s time for our monthly critique contest! This month, winners will receive feedback from a professional editor. So exciting! 🙂

This contest is closed. Please try again next month. If you’d like to be notified when the next one goes live, consider subscribing to the blog (in the sidebar).

Eight winners will receive a critique of their first five pages.

If you’re working on a manuscript 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 you’re chosen. Please know that if I’m unable to get in touch with you through that address, you’ll have to forfeit your win.

Here’s the editor you’ll be working with:

Erica Converso

I’m Erica Converso, author of the Five Stones Pentalogy (affiliate link). I love chocolate, animals, anime, musicals, and lots and lots of books – though not necessarily in that order. In addition to my work as an author, I have been an intern at Marvel Comics, a college essay tutor, and a database and emerging technologies librarian. Between helping adult patrons in the reference section and mentoring teens in the evening reading programs, I was also the resident research expert for anyone requiring more in-depth information for a project.

As an editor, I aim to improve and polish your work to a professional level, while also teaching you to hone your craft and learn from previous mistakes. With every piece I edit, I see the author as both client and student. I believe that every manuscript presents an opportunity to grow as a writer, and a good editor should teach you about your strengths and weaknesses so that you can return to your writing more confident in your skills. Visit my website astrioncreative.com for more information on my books and editing and coaching services.

Contest Guidelines

  • This month’s contest will work the same as it usually does…except our amazing guest editor will send feedback if you win.

  • Please be sure your first five pages (double-spaced in 12-point font) are ready to go so our guest editor 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, please plan on entering the next contest, once any necessary tweaking has been taken care of.

  • This contest only runs for 24 hours, start to finish, so get your comment in there!

Eight commenters’ names will be randomly drawn and posted tomorrow morning. If you win, I’ll contact you with information about sending it to me. Then, I’ll forward it to our amazing editor for 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 right-hand sidebar). 

Good luck! I can’t wait to see who the winners will be. 🙂

PS: If you want to amp up your first page, grab our helpful First Pages checklist from One Stop for Writers. And for more instruction on these important opening elements, see this Mother Lode of First Page Resources.

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Comments

  2. MINDY ALYSE WEISS says

    Thank you for hopping over to Writers Helping Writers and entering our monthly contest. The eight lucky winners are:

    Darlene Elder
    AC Hoekwater
    Kathleen Mayes
    Jeanne M. Dickson
    Kamilla
    Tracey Buchanan
    Carolyn Crow
    Anna

    Huge congrats! I’ll e-mail you with instructions for sending your five pages to me.

  3. Alasdair Alexander Mac Arthur says

    I’ve just started writing a book. I’d love some feedback. Yes please.

  51. Catherine Misener says

    As my timeline to begin querying is within two months, it would be great to receive feedback on some pages. Best of luck to all who enter!

  71. Jessica Kaye says

    I’m never not going to leave a comment for this 🙂 …..unless my first pages aren’t ready, or course…..