November Novelists Contest #4 - Last One - Win a Book and Cash!
>> Thursday, November 26, 2009
Eight more days of Nanowrimo to go...
And one last contest for us. This week's contest is Best Novel Pitch. This one might be the trickiest - but also the most useful contest in the long run.
Pretend that you have cornered the agent of your dreams in an elevator. You have 30 seconds before you reach the next floor, the doors slide open, and the agent starts screaming for building security.
Go ahead - make your pitch!
Rules:
1. This contest has a 300 word limit.
2. Enter your pitch in the comment section below.
3. The contest is open.
4. Deadline: 11:59 pm Pacific time Nov. 27, 2009
5. Winner announced Nov. 28, 2009
Prize: Writing the Breakout Novel, by Donald Maass and $20.00 USD!
Good Luck, everyone!
2 comments:
Well, not sure how this is done, but I will give it a try LOL! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
They say all is fair in love and war. That is until you meet a lady who lies, steals and cheats to gain her revenge.
Brianna is hell bent on avenging the death of her parents at the hands of Yankee soldiers. Using a clever disguise, she infiltrates a Confederate camp. Seriously injured and taken prisoner, her identity is discovered unexpectedly by, Yankee Captain Tristan Creighton.
Furious his fiancé has joined the enemy and shot his brother, Tristan soon finds his dedication to family and loyalty to country will face bitter challenges. From the trenches of West Virginia battlefields to the trenches of marriage they will contest their love for each other until the end.
No matter how much they try to deny it, their passion sizzles like liquid heat. Brianna and Tristan discover that passion will guide them to the point of… Love’s Soft Surrender, 75,000 words, 1864 historical.
MARY OF ANGELS
adapted from my original TV series.
Sold into marriage to drug dealer at age twelve.
Widowed by a grisly crucifixion at age fourteen.
Self-delivered to the protection of a brutal cop at fifteen.
One of the top-earning prostitutes in Tijuana at seventeen.
The only woman running illegals into California at eighteen.
Leader of a woman-centered crime ring at nineteen, and owner of a shelter for girls.
Subject of a popular radio ballad and cheap film at twenty.
Before her twenty-first birthday worshipped as secular saint.
And all around Maria de Los Angeles twist the skeins of borderline lives, other frontier transformations, other deprivations turned to crimes, turned to hymns.
A balladeer who sings on buses sells himself to fight his son’s disease and affects an election. A dog hardened by pit fights emigrates to hell, returns to dog heaven, and escapes to the job any dog would dream of. A corrupt, womanizing journalist is led to usefulness by a smuggler, and to redemption by a suicidal child. A boy crosses so many rivers from his home in tropic jungles to sleek machine of California and becomes a man before his time by throwing away his life for those he loves.
The twin neighborhoods of Barrio Lobo and Grupo Bravo span from Third World to First World. Separated by porous fences, exploited by power on and ignored by governments on both sides, they are a single community with an imaginary line drawn across its heart.
Creating their own culture, speaking their own language, living with only their own laws of each moment and faiths of convenience, they are converging flow of humanity with almost no allegiance to those with the duty or motivation to keep them under control.
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