Inside the Author's Mind

50th

BIRTHDAY

WRITING

COMPETITION

Yes, it's true! In August I'll be celebrating reaching that wonderful milestone of turning 50 years old.

And I don't mind one bit. Fifty is a glorious age. It's a writing age, an age of experience and enthusiasm... and I don't feel a day over 20 [and I don't act it, either - so I've been told]!

To celebrate my "coming of age" I'm going to be running a month-long competition for writers.

I'm offering:

one free professional edit

of a short story, novelette, novella or novel

of any fiction genre!

As many of you know, I've been editing for Eternal Press for more than three years now, and I've recently joined the staff of Damnation Books as an editor as well. Before that, I've had many years of experience in editing short stories, newsletters, newspapers, etc.

If you want to check out my latest editing credits, click on my Editing Credits page and scroll through the wonderful titles I've been privileged to have edited over the past few years.

So, writers, get to it!

The competition starts NOW

from August 1 until August 31, 2009.

There will be one winner only. The winning author's name will be drawn out of a hat, totally at random, and announced during the first week of September.



Prize: One Professional Edit.



This edit is designed to help you polish your manuscript up to submission standard to present to a publisher if you're on your last draft, or to help you with the process of writing your story if you're on your first draft.

Please note: this is not a guarantee that a publisher will accept your manuscript.

Publishers will assign you an editor of their own if they accept your work for publication.

I am offering this edit in good spirit. It is totally up to you whether you wish to accept my suggestions or not.



Submission Guidelines



Please send your submission to: brittanykingstonauthor@gmail.com

Word documents only.

Place your name and email at the top of the title page.

Manuscripts formatted in Times or similar font, 12 point, 1.5 line spacing.

Fiction genres only.

No late entries will be accepted.

Winner chosen totally at random.



So there you have it, authors... have fun.



Yours in love and light



Brittany Kingston