2020 Winner: Partner Pursuit by Kathy Strobos
Kathy Strobos is a romantic comedy/women's fiction writer living in New York City with her husband and two children,
amid a growing collection of books, toys and dollhouses. Her website is http://www.kathystrobos.com.
She previously worked as a lawyer. She left law to pursue her dream of writing fiction full time and getting in shape.
Partner Pursuit is her first novel. She is still working on getting in shape.
Kathy Strobos is a romantic comedy/women's fiction writer living in New York City with her husband and two children,
amid a growing collection of books, toys and dollhouses. Her website is http://www.kathystrobos.com.
She previously worked as a lawyer. She left law to pursue her dream of writing fiction full time and getting in shape.
Partner Pursuit is her first novel. She is still working on getting in shape.
Look for 25-4-25 to return in 2021!
Here's your chance to get a developmental edit by published and soon-to-be-published authors of your first 25 pages, and it's only $25!
Our feedback can include tips on plot, pace, characterization, dialogue--whatever it might take to attract the interest of an acquiring editor. The most promising manuscript will win our grand prize: a premium one-year subscription to Querytracker.net, to help you find the perfect acquiring agents and publishers for your project and keep track of your submissions.
Below, please find the 25-4-25 Contest Rules with links to Required Disclaimer, and Judging Criteria:
Contest General Rules:
Our feedback can include tips on plot, pace, characterization, dialogue--whatever it might take to attract the interest of an acquiring editor. The most promising manuscript will win our grand prize: a premium one-year subscription to Querytracker.net, to help you find the perfect acquiring agents and publishers for your project and keep track of your submissions.
Below, please find the 25-4-25 Contest Rules with links to Required Disclaimer, and Judging Criteria:
Contest General Rules:
- RWA Membership is NOT required to enter the contest
- Cost is $25, nonrefundable, paid via Paypal.
- Entries will be limited to the first 50 received. Any entries received after that time will be returned and monies refunded.
- If you use Paypal please click go to www.paypal.com. The Paypal email address is hudsonvalleyromance@yahoo.com .
- All entries must be accompanied by the contest Disclaimer which must be copied and pasted in the body of the e-mail. Please also include the Paypal confimation in the e-mail.
- Entries should be a word document (PDFs are not allowed) and should include the first 25 pages of your manuscript along with a cover page with your name, e-mail and title/genre of your unpublished, romance book-length novel or novella. The cover page should be your first page. Do not send cover page as a separate attachment.
- Manuscript should be professionally presented in 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with one-inch margins all around. Any entries that do not meet this criteria will be reformatted and only the first 25 pages will be edited.
- Entries must be sent electronically between January 1, 2021 -May 31, 2021.
- Send entries to contest coordinator: Liz Mattila at hudsonvalleycontest@gmail.com
- For the purposes of this contest, the author’s name should not appear on the manuscript.
- We will return manuscripts within 3 months with edits.
- Winners will be announced in September, 2021. In the case of a score tie, manuscripts will be judged by a team of three published authors.
- Editing by HVRWA authors in no way guarantees agent/publisher interest or action. Opinions are those of the HVRWA member/editor only.
- The criteria on which your entry will be scored can be found here.
- Please direct any questions to hudsonvalleycontest@gmail.com