Contestants

Want to write a book? Have friends always told you that your life would make good reading? Fictionalized autobiography can be the best of two worlds—just enough truth to give a novel substance and enough story-telling to make it sizzle. 0 to 60 is such a novel—fifty per cent honest to goodness it happened, and fifty per cent plain old imagination! But knowing what you want to do is only a small portion of the challenge—the actual writing can be daunting! And this is where my offer comes in. I will award two finalists in my contest (rules below) with the best “help” I’ve run across in years—Author Connie Shelton’s Write a Novel in a Weekend! A $159 value! Check out her website to see what you could win. www.novelinaweekend.com  Then . . .

Send me (attach to email slater.susan@ymail.com ) the first ten pages of your unpublished novel—a fictionalized autobiography! Follow good manuscript guidelines (double-spaced, 1-1 ½ ” margins, in Microsoft Word). I’ll critique every 10 page entry I receive (and return with comments) plus choose two to award. Winners will be announced on my website August 31, 2009.

What are you waiting for? Enter to win one of the best writing tools ever—absolutely guaranteed to get you and your novel off and running! Take “writing what you know” to the next level and let me hear from you!
Susan