The RMFW Colorado Gold contest is a competition for unpublished writers of genre and mainstream commercial fiction. It is a rare chance to get your work in front of industry professionals, such as literary agents and editors, who judge the contest and also provide feedback. This blog is the second of a three-part series where…
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Just Submit, Don’t Quit … by Terri Benson
I recently submitted presentations for a conference, and just heard back that mine weren’t accepted. I also submitted full reads to two editors who requested them at a conference last year. One turned me down, the other still hasn’t responded, although he acknowledged he’d gotten it. I submitted chapters on-line to a publisher and an…
How the Colorado Gold Contest Changed How I Feel About My Writing … by Jennifer Kincheloe
As an aspiring author, it was hard to know where I truly stood. Was my book good? Excellent? Abysmal? People seemed to like it, but honestly, I had no idea. The RMFW Colorado Gold Contest for unpublished writers changed how I felt about my writing. The contest put twenty pages of my novel in front…
Finding Your Words Through Passion
By Liesa Malik This is so embarrassing that I hate to see the word in print–BLOCKED. I’ve been blocked. I know that professionals do not allow themselves to succumb to such a silly and amateur problem, but I’ve been stuck in the quagmire of “my writing sucks–I have no ideas–why did I ever want to…
The Dirty Shameful Things I Did In High School That Help My Writing Career Today
By Aaron Ritchey So the delightful Delilah S. Dawson blogged about the perils of book promotion, how to do it wrong, and how to do it right. So really, I’m not covering any new ground, and you should probably watch the Star Wars Episode VI trailer again. Right? Shortest. Blog post. Ever. You can do a…