Enter our 25-4-25 Contest for 2021
and Get Vital Feedback on your First 25 Pages!
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include the first 25 pages of your manuscript along with a cover page with your name, e-mail and title/genre of your unpublished, romance book-length novel or novella.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. Scoresheets will NOT be sent to zuthors; they are for internal use only.
- 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
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.
