Tag: Charity
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Win Literary Prizes and Help Fight Diabetes
Just a quick reminder that bidding starts Sunday for the Brenda Novak Diabetes Fundraiser. This year, aspiring writers get a chance to win some incredible prizes. Seriously, some mind-blowing stuff! Like lunch with agents, editors and other Very Important People. Or a chance to get your polished manuscript into the hot little hands of people…
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Meet a Literary Agent AND Help Kids Read — No Foolin’!
Listen up, true believers. Think you can write a novel good enough to get published? Find out this Sunday! Literary agent and celebrated book genius Sara Megibow (of the incomparable Nelson Literary Agency) will lead a two-hour writing workshop open to any fiction writer. (That means you!) Aspiring writers from all over have benefited from…
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Literary Agents, Editors and You, at the Brenda Novak Diabetes Fundraiser
This is a great charity event! I’ve been wanting to donate to this for years. (True story: back when I worked at a book distributor, there were two pallets of Nora Roberts and Iris Johansen paperbacks I was almost able to donate, but then there was an unfortunate incident involving a blizzard, an aging forklift…
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Meet a Literary Agent and Help a Kid Learn to Read
It isn’t often that you get a chance to boost your own writing career and do a good deed at the same time. So when that opportunity comes along, you say, “Yes!” If you live in Colorado, here’s a great opportunity to personally meet with literary agent Sara Megibow and get one-on-one writing feedback. Sara…
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When unicorn pegasus kittens attack!
Want to write a story for a good cause? Want to win some money, too? Check out this mind-boggling story contest, courtesy of the inimitable team-up of John Scalzi, Wil Wheaton, artist Jeff Zugale and the Lupus Alliance of America: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/05/30/fanfic-contest/ In short, if you can write a story based on the picture, you can…
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