Author Seeks Writing Samples
Dynamic dialogue, fresh body language, description that doesn't stop the action, intriguing hooks that keep going... These are four of the 24 fiction-writing techniques for which positive examples are being sought for the next edition of this year's winner of the Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction Book.
If you or the writers you know would like an excerpt from your published or unpublished novel, short story, script, or work of creative nonfiction considered for inclusion in the all-genre edition of this award-winner, here's a one-time opportunity.
Up to 145 of the best examples that show the effective use of a specific writing technique will be featured in DON'T SABOTAGE YOUR SUBMISSIONS, the all-genre edition of DON'T MURDER YOUR MYSTERY, which -- in addition to winning the Agatha Award -- became a nominee for both the Anthony and Macavity awards for best nonfiction book, an alternate selection of the Writer's Digest Book Club, and a finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards.
The author of this much-acclaimed insider's guide for writers is Chris Roerden, an editor for 43 years whose clients have been published by Berkley Prime Crime, St. Martin's Press, Midnight Ink, Viking, Rodale, and many others.
Her purpose in creating the 'DON'T' series is to show why ninety percent of manuscript submissions are rejected immediately, and what writers can do to boost the odds that an agent or editor will actually read what they submit. Roerden targets 24 techniques that reveal most manuscripts as average.
"Only positive examples will be published," she says. "The bad examples I write myself because I don't want to embarrass anyone." Writers who are featured receive a copy of their own review and full credit, as in any review, and retain all rights to their own work.
No purchase is required and no fees or payments are involved. Guidelines and a form for submissions can be downloaded from here [PDF file] or received for a large SASE sent to P.O.Box 16024, High Point NC 27261.
Deadline is US Thanksgiving 2007; selections are being made as they arrive. Publication is June 2008.
For more information, reviews, and the first four chapters of the award-winning book, see Bella Rosa Books.
If you or the writers you know would like an excerpt from your published or unpublished novel, short story, script, or work of creative nonfiction considered for inclusion in the all-genre edition of this award-winner, here's a one-time opportunity.
Up to 145 of the best examples that show the effective use of a specific writing technique will be featured in DON'T SABOTAGE YOUR SUBMISSIONS, the all-genre edition of DON'T MURDER YOUR MYSTERY, which -- in addition to winning the Agatha Award -- became a nominee for both the Anthony and Macavity awards for best nonfiction book, an alternate selection of the Writer's Digest Book Club, and a finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards.
The author of this much-acclaimed insider's guide for writers is Chris Roerden, an editor for 43 years whose clients have been published by Berkley Prime Crime, St. Martin's Press, Midnight Ink, Viking, Rodale, and many others.
Her purpose in creating the 'DON'T' series is to show why ninety percent of manuscript submissions are rejected immediately, and what writers can do to boost the odds that an agent or editor will actually read what they submit. Roerden targets 24 techniques that reveal most manuscripts as average.
"Only positive examples will be published," she says. "The bad examples I write myself because I don't want to embarrass anyone." Writers who are featured receive a copy of their own review and full credit, as in any review, and retain all rights to their own work.
No purchase is required and no fees or payments are involved. Guidelines and a form for submissions can be downloaded from here [PDF file] or received for a large SASE sent to P.O.Box 16024, High Point NC 27261.
Deadline is US Thanksgiving 2007; selections are being made as they arrive. Publication is June 2008.
For more information, reviews, and the first four chapters of the award-winning book, see Bella Rosa Books.
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