Over $4,000 in Prizes, Feedback and Exposure!

Submit the first three chapters of your novel. Grand prize award of:

  • $1,806 self-publishing solution from CreateSpace.
  • $300 cash.
  • Feedback on every chapter you submit.
  • The chance to meet other authors, get motivated, and get noticed.

  Two runner-ups will receive:

  • CreateSpace copyediting service valued at approximately $600.
  • $150 in cash
  • Feedback

Everyone who enters receives feedback, motivation, and advice.

Keep Us Reading

We know that writing a compelling start isn’t easy. So, for the seventh year we’ve put together a motivational competition to help you hone your first three chapters to perfection (if you haven’t already). We’re looking for opening chapters that will create a burning need to find out what happens, how the characters turn out, how the novel resolves itself. The kind of start that gets an agent to call back, a publisher to show interest, and a reader to plunk down their hard earned money. Above all, give us three opening chapters that will keep us reading.

Submission deadline: June 29, 2013