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Gearing Up For WriteOnCon 2011 – Faculty Announcements!

July 29, 2011 By 7 Comments

Okay, so working behind the scenes on WriteOnCon is absolutely amazing—and it’s because of all the people. Today, we’re pleased to announce a partial list of our faculty. We’ve been working on the Faculty page here on the website like crazy, and we can’t wait to unveil it! (Soon, my pretties. Soon.)

Get your giddy-up on for these LITERARY AGENTS:

  • Michael Bourret
  • Jim McCarthy
  • Michelle Andelman
  • Mary Kole
  • Holly Root
  • Joanna Volpe
  • Kathleen Ortiz
  • Tina Wexler
  • Natalie Fischer
  • Michelle Wolfson
  • Marietta Zacker
  • Sara Megibow

Hold on to your hats (where did this Western theme come from? No idea.) for these EDITORS:

  • Anica Rissi (Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster)
  • Liesa Abrams (Aladdin, Simon & Schuster)
  • Annette Pollert (Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster)
  • Martha Mihalick (Greenwillow, HarperCollins)
  • Molly O’Neill (Katherine Teagen, HarperCollins)
  • Kendra Levin (Viking, Penguin)

Saddle yourselves up for some great fun with these AUTHORS:

  • Josh Berk
  • Sara Zarr
  • Saundra Mitchell
  • Scott Tracey
  • Beth Revis
  • Carrie Ryan
  • Jessi Kirby
  • Lindsey Leavitt
  • Jay Asher
  • Shelley Thomas Moore
  • Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Nova Ren Suma

Whew. I don’t know about you, but I just can’t contain my excitement! Be sure to mark your calendars from Tuesday, August 16 – Thursday, August 18 so you can spend some time with these amazing people.

Additional faculty will be announced next week, followed closely by the schedule of events. Keep your eye on our site—heck, follow us and/or sign up for our newsletter!—so you don’t miss anything. (Newsletter sign-up widget right over there on the right. Same with the follow button.)

How to Register for WriteOnCon – details here.
How the Live Events Work – details here.

Filed Under: Pre-Conference

Live Events and How They Work

July 27, 2011 By 12 Comments

Dude, the schedule for WriteOnCon 2011 is shaping up to be longer, better, and LIVER than ever! That’s right, we have live events scheduled throughout each day of the conference—not just in the evening!

I hope you’ve taken vacation from your day job from Tuesday, August 16 – Thursday, August 18. If you haven’t—or you can’t—don’t worry! You can access all of our posts after the conference too.

Today, you’ll get the details for how the live events (NOT Forum Events–more coming on those soon!) will work.
1. About 30 minutes before a scheduled live event, a window will be posted in a blog post on the main WriteOnCon site.
2. You can log in, but it’s not required to participate or ask a question.
3. Each of the live chats has an assigned topic, and one of the WriteOnCon girls will be moderating.
4. Questions can be submitted any time once the live chat window opens.
5. Questions need to be asked ONLY ONCE. You won’t see your comment come through, but on our end, the comments are visible and we have behind-the-scenes WOC girls putting them on hold.
6. The moderator of the chat will put through as many questions as possible for the WriteOnCon faculty member(s) to answer. We really try to put forth the questions as fast as possible, from as many of you as possible.
7. Pitching/Querying is not appropriate for live chats.
8. If you cannot attend one of the live events, a transcript will be available afterward, in the same blog post as the live window.

That’s it! If you have questions about how the live events will work, leave them for us here.

Our schedule will be out in the next couple of weeks so you can start planning! It’s gonna rock your world. Meanwhile keeping watching the blog as we continue to detail how everything is going to work for this year’s conference.

How to Register for WriteOnCon – details here.

Filed Under: Live Events, Pre-Conference

How to Register for WriteOnCon

July 25, 2011 By 18 Comments

Okay, so registration is as easy as breathing. No lie. Since all the events of WriteOnCon are online—and they’re FREE—there is no “official” way to register.

How we count you as a registered participant of WriteOnCon is through the registration process for the forum.

It’s easy, painless, and fun! Especially since we have some major events planned to take place ONLY in the forum this year. So you’re definitely going to want to register and start participating in our forums.

Click here, and sign up.

You’ve just done two things:
1. Registered for WriteOnCon.
2. Changed your life. I’m not kidding. There will be a post very soon about our Live Forum Events and how they’ll work, but let me just say one word about the forum: Ninja.

Trust me when I say you’re going to want to have your best behavior on, your query letter polished, and your schedule from Tuesday, August 16 – Thursday, August 18 cleared.

Filed Under: Pre-Conference

Do YOU want to win $1000?!?!

July 18, 2011 By 39 Comments
And no, our account has NOT been hacked.
 
 
Watch THIS:

Okay, do we have your attention? Good.
 
WriteOnCon has teamed up with TheReadingRoom.com to bring you a VERY special contest to kick off the August, 2011 WriteOnCon Conference.
 
What? A first 500 MG/YA words contest. Grand Prize is $1000 AND an author profile page on TheReadingRoom.com. In addition, your work will be considered for possible representation by literary agent, Catherine Drayton.


When? Today.


Why? Because we love you.

 
So here’s how it works. Click HERE to register with The ReadingRoom.com if you are not already a member (YOU MUST BE A MEMBER TO WIN). Then click HERE to submit the first 500 words of your COMPLETED MG/YA manuscript (ad appears on the right sidebar).
 

Submissions will remain open until Wednesday, August 17th (the second day of the WriteOnCon conference).

 

The TOP 5 submissions will be announced on Thursday, August 18th (the last day of WriteOnCon) and posted on TheReadingRoom.com where EVERYONE can vote.

 

On Thursday, September 8th, The Reading Room and WriteOnCon will host a special LIVE event to announce the GRAND PRIZE WINNER who will receive $1000 cold, hard cash, in the form of a gigantic check in the form of a regular-sized check AND their own author profile page on TheReadingRoom.com. Finally, literary agent, Catherine Drayton, will consider their work for possible representation.

Totally amazeballs, right?

So, really, the only question left is, what would you do with $1000? 


P.S.
If you want to help us spread the word by tweeting #IfIHad1000 with a link to this post telling us what you’d do with the money if you win, we would be deeply grateful.

Click HERE to read TheReadingRoom.Com Official Competition Rules.
YOU MUST BE A MEMBER OF TheReadingRoom.com TO WIN. Click HERE to register.

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Winners from the Merry Sisters of Fate

July 8, 2011 By 3 Comments

Okay, so what a great chat on Wednesday, right? And you’ve been into the forum to participate in our Critique Partner Match-up event, haven’t you? Well, you should definitely do that. Like Maggie, Brenna, and Tessa said, there’s nothing like having the right critique partner for your work.

Anyway, now onto the winners! Without further adieu…

Signed copy of BLOOD MAGIC by Tessa Gratton: Joey!
Signed ARC of THE SPACE BETWEEN by Brenna Yovanoff: Jennifer Fischetto!
Signed copy of LINGER by Maggie Stiefvater: Tiffany Neal!

Please email us at writeoncon(at)gmail(dot)com, with your mailing address and we’ll pass it along to the Merry Sisters of Fate. Congrats!

And a big thank you to everyone who came and made the event such a success!

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Win a signed paperback of LINGER, by Maggie Stiefvater

July 6, 2011 By 58 Comments

Because they are SO incredibly awesome, the Merry Sisters of Fate have generously donated some prizes for us to give away. We have three prizes total–and yes, you CAN enter to win them all.

Up for grabs here is a SIGNED paperback of LINGER, by the uber-amazing Maggie Stiefvater.

Here’s the blurb from Goodreads:

In Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other.  Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack.  And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.

At turns harrowing and euphoric, Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love — the light and the dark, the warm and the cold — in a way you will never forget.

 

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post by 11:59 pm EDT on Thursday, July 7th. We’ll draw one random winner and post their name on Friday, July 8th. Sorry–this contest is only open to winners with a US mailing address.

And if you would like to enter for the other prizes from the Merry Sisters of Fate, click HERE and HERE.

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