It's time for Round Two of the Red Light, Green Light Writing contest! In a combination of public voting and voting by our agent and author judges, we've narrowed the entries to the top fifty eye-catching first sentences. The entries are now up to two sentences for your reading enjoyment.Please help us out by voting! Your votes count for forty percent of the total score, and you'll get a chance to see how your votes compared to the industry professionals. Want to see the results?
Click here to see the results so far from the public vote!
Click here to see the results so far from our industry professionals!
Vote for as many entries or as few as you like. The top twenty-five will be moving on to the next round. Voting will close at 11:59pm Eastern Time on Monday August 10th.
Click Read More on the right below to see the entries and cast your vote!
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Industry Judges
Agent Judges include:Moe Ferrar, Bookends, LLC
Susan Hawk, The Bent Agency
Christa Heschke, McIntosh & Otis
Amaryah Orenstein, GO Literary
Sarah Negovetich, Corvisiero Agency
Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary Agency
Saba Sulaiman, Talcott Notch
Uwe Stender, Triada US Literary Agency
Author Judges include:
Holly Bodger
Martina Boone
Erin Cashman
Lisa Gail Green
Joy N. Hensley
Sheri Larsen
Kim Liggett
Kimberly Griffiths Little
Sarah Ockler
Sara Raasch
Susan Sipal
Ron Smith
Liza Wiemer
Kat Zhang
Check out this link for all the bios!
Prizes
The top ten entries (excluding the top three) will each receive a one chapter (up to 12 pages) critique from a published or soon to be published author.The 3 grand prize winners will each receive a one chapter (up to 12 pages) critique and/or partial request by at least one participating agent. The grand prize winner will also receive a partial request from the amazing Ammi-Joan Paquette, who is currently open only to submissions via referrals.
Be sure to cast your vote by 11:59pm Eastern Time on Monday August 10th, and please spread the word using the hashtag #GreenLightWIP. The more the merrier!
Technical Note
Some people using Internet Explorer have been having issues with the voting form above. If this is you: don't worry! You can still vote HERE.Last week, we accidentally posted the voting form above - a full week earlier than intended. All votes made during that time the form was live are 100% valid, and included in the results above.
How can you tell if you voted? I believe last time it informed me after I hit "done." If I didn't receive this message should I vote again? Also I'm having trouble with the links to view the previous votes. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGo ahead and vote again. It must not have taken your vote, Ann!
DeleteFirst entry is 3 sentences.
ReplyDeleteThe entries are randomised for each new voter - would you be able to let me know specifically which sentence you meant?
DeleteI think they mean the "We should slit her throat..." entry. It has 3 sentences.
DeleteThe "The letter smelled of starry summer nights. Fireworks and a first kiss." sentence is missing from the Industry vote?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately the entrant decided to leave the contest. The lines have been removed from both forms.
DeleteTechnically, that entry did not meet the contest guidelines, so after multiple comments from judges and other competitors, we decided to discuss this with the participant. After much deliberation, she felt that for stylistic reasons this wouldn't work as well as a single sentence. Calls like this are really hard--so we apologize for the confusion!
DeleteThanks for hosting this contest! Love the breakdown of votes!
ReplyDeleteGlad you're enjoying it, Shari! It's so much fun watching the judging!
DeleteGood luck everyone!
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