Sneaky Calls for Submissions

 

Hi all!

I hope you've been doing fanastically well since I last posted, and congratulations to anyone who has entered the So You Think You Can Write competition!

There have been a few sneaky calls for submissions and writing opportunities over the past week that you may have missed. Here's the list:
 

We'd love to read some amazing cowboy Brazens! Bonus points for series potential. #nanowrimo #amwriting #submissions
— Brazen Books (@BrazenBooks) October 2, 2012
 

ANNOUNCEMENT: Halloween 2013 call for submissions unveiled! Need ideas? We've got those, too! bit.ly/Ks6FJT
— Brazen Books (@BrazenBooks) October 1, 2012

You can find the link from the previous tweet and further information about Brazen's Halloween 2013 call here.

If you're not quite ready for Halloween yet, write a Valentine's Day @brazenbooks & send in the full by November 25th! bit.ly/Ks6FJT
— Brazen Books (@BrazenBooks) October 1, 2012

You can find the link from the previous tweet here and Entangled's official call here.
 

Writers! Bliss is looking for stories that revolve around the Fourth of July. Got just the thing? Query us at: bit.ly/JbBBN6
— Bliss Books (@RomanceIsBliss) October 5, 2012

You can find the link from the previous tweet here.

 

Thank you to Autumn McArthur for the heads up about this call for winter holiday romance anthlogies with a speculative element by World Weaver Press.

 

Also, Savvy Authors is hosting an Entangled Publishing Smack Down where editors from each of the lines are giving up their time FREE to tutor you. You can register and check for availabe places here, but there is more information about requirements & prep here.

 

If the Smack Down isn't for you, Savvy Authors is also running a NaNoWriMo boot camp here.

 

And finally, don't forget that you can help make a publication dream come true by voting for a So You Think You Can Write entry. You get one vote every day.

 

Happy writing!

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New Voices Competition Update 3

The first submission round of Mills and Boon’s New Voices competition closed with a bang yesterday and a whopping 1092 entries! That’s 271 more than in 2010 and it's now up to the judges to whittle that down to twenty.

Good luck to them!

As Madeline Ash pointed out, the Top Twenty will make up less than 2% which should indicate just how important it is to submit your story no matter what the results are.

The category percentages have also changed and stand at:

Contemporary Romance (50.3%)

Warm and Cosy (11.7%)

Historical (11.1%)

Paranormal (10.3%)

Romantic Suspense (9.4%)

Passion (7.2%)

I'm very impressed by the number of aspiring historical writers. Perhaps we'll see a historical entry or two in the top twenty this year. What do you think?

So, there's a whole 2 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes and 10 seconds until the Top Twenty announcement. Of course you can spend that time obsessively checking your entry and reading others, but if you'd also like to have something to do to keep your mind off the life changing news that could be coming your way I have some ideas...

1. Bestselling romance author, Nicola Marsh, is running a one week pitch competition in which you can win critiques by her and senior editor of Entangled Publishing, Liz Pelletier. You can find the details here.

2. The 26th Annual Hook, Line and Sinker competition has also launched to help you hone your skills for grabbing editor and agent’s attention. Find out more here.

Do you know of any other competitions in the works? Please let me know so I can add them to the list.

Good luck to all the NV entrants and happy writing/OCD inbox checking!