Win Feedback on Your Query

Want to win
editorial feedback
and take your query
from good to great?

Well, my writerly friend, you’re in luck!
It’s time for our monthly
Phenomenal First Pages contest.
In this draw, you can win…

Editorial feedback on your query.

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 here.

Entering is easy. Leave your contact information on this entry form. If you win the draw, we’ll let you know how to send us your query.

Contest Details

• This is a 24-hour contest, so enter ASAP.
• Make sure your contact information on the entry form is correct.
• FIVE winners will be drawn. If you win, we’ll email instructions for submitting your query.
• Please have your query ready in case your name is selected. Format with 1-inch margins and 12pt Times New Roman font. 

The editor you’ll be working with: Julie Artz

Julie Artz has spent the past decade helping writers like you slay their doubt demons and get their novels and memoirs reader-ready. She’s worked with both award-winning and newer authors across the publishing spectrum from Big Five to small and university presses to indie and hybrid. She is an Author Accelerator-certified Founding Book Coach, a sought-after speaker and writing instructor, and a regular contributor to Jane Friedman and Writers Helping Writers, and a regular instructor for AuthorsPublish, IWWG, and more. Her work as a Pitch Wars and Teen Pit mentor, a former SCBWI Regional Advisor (WWA), and her memberships in The EFA, the WFWA, AWP, and the Authors Guild keep her industry knowledge sharp. A consummate social and environmental justice minded story geek, Julie lives in by an enchanted stream in Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband, two strong-willed teenagers (when they’re not off at university!), and two naughty furry familiars. She’s built a thriving book coaching business based on her values, her editing chops, and her knowledge of story. 

Julie’s stories have been published in Crow Toes Weekly, the Sirens Benefit Anthology Villains & Vengeance, and the speculative anthology Beyond the Latch and Lever. Subscribe to Julie’s weekly newsletter, Wyrd Words Weekly, or connect with her below:

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Did you know…

Some winners find their dream editor through this contest, and a few have shared with us that their polished pages have helped them secure representation. Talk about phenomenal reasons to enter!

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Good luck, everyone. We can’t wait to see who wins!