Wednesday 15 February 2012

A Chick-Lit Novel Competition...

Thanks to Bertieb a member of the Writers News Talkback forum for highlighting this great competition.

"Novelicious has teamed up with Avon (HarperCollins) and Books and the City (Simon & Schuster UK) to bring you the chick lit event of the year!"

Novelicious Undiscovered 2012 is running this competition for UK residents, and offering some great prizes-a manuscript critique and a Kindle among the goodies for one of the winners.

All you need is the first 3,000 words of your chick-lit novel and you can send it by e-mail, so there's no postage to pay, or entry fee.

If you're outside the UK, already under contract to a publisher, or signed to an agent at the time of entry, you aren't eligible- sorry...

Closing date of the first stage is 3rd of April 2012- so get your first 3,000 words shining and ready to go. You retain the rights to your work too, so this is a good one to go for.

There are various stages, but you can read the details on their main page to see how it will work.

Now as with any competition there are rules and it's always a good idea to read the terms and conditions and understand them completely, so you don't disqualify yourself by making a simple mistake.

Rule 7 is very important. Especially for bloggers/website owners.

The winners are due to be announced on the 26th June, so it's not too long. But like any competition if there's a lot of entries then planned dates can go a little astray.

And if you enter- good luck. :-)

5 comments:

Helen Baggott said...

I think 'Rule 7' is going to be an important one in a lot of future comps - it's too easy to slip something on a blog etc.

Rosemary Gemmell said...

Good competition, even though I can't enter. Are you having a go, Carol?

Carolb said...

I certainly agree with you, Baggy. It shows how important following the rules can be...

Rosemary, I won't be entering- I've too many potential historicals to get on with. Chick-lit really isn't my thing, though I've read and enjoyed some great books in the genre.

Maxi said...

Thanks for that, Carol. Saw it on TB but it's good to have the T&Cs pointed out. Great post, as ever.

Carolb said...

Thanks, Maxi. Good luck if you enter.
Competition rules just seem to keep getting longer...