About Carina Press
Carina Press, Harlequins digital-first imprint, is open
to submissions.
Our mission is to connect readers with authors who write the
stories they want to read.
Carina Press features books from talented authors in all genres
of romance, erotica, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery,
womens fiction, and more. If the book of your heart fits
into a niche that has very little shelf space in a traditional
bookstore, Carina Press is eager to read and potentially publish
your story.
|
The Prizes for the Readers!
The voting process allows readers to provide feedback to the
writers through our online form. Each week an email address
will be selected at random from these posts and will receive
a digital Carina title of the winners choice.
The Grand Prize will be 25 digital Carina
titles of the winners choice and will
be selected at random from all of those who voted.
|
The Prizes for the Writers!
The Editorial Staff of Carina Press will select winners from
among the Finalists.
The Grand Prize will
be a Kindle plus a critique* from a Carina editor.
Second, Third, and Fourth place
critiqued* by editorial staff of Carina Press.
*Critiques will be offered for a set number
of pages, not just the contest entry. Length of critique piece
will be decrease from Grand Prize to Fourth place, but will
not be less than 15 pages.
|
Info For Writers
| |
About Writing Contest 2011
-
It's free.
-
Contest is open to both published and unpublished
authors, however authors contracted with Carina Press are
not eligible to enter or win.
-
Categories were created for the convenience
of the readers. All entries will be judged the same, we
will not be breaking it up into winners by category.
-
Each week we post a group of entries to
be voted on by readers.
- The entry that receives the most votes from each week will
be entered into the final round of competition..
- Two Wildcard Finalists will be selected by the Romance Junkies
staff from the entries that did not win their week.
- Carina Press editors will review the Finalists and select
a Grand prize winner and three runners-up
Contest Schedule
February 1st April 1st-- Take in Entries
Feb 14th thru May 14th Post entries
(every week a group of entries are posted on the contest page
to be voted on by readers)
May 30th Winners Announced
So how do you enter? You scroll down and read all the Rules
and stuff we put in to cover our butts. Then you polish up your
entry and click the link and paste it in. ;-) Easy as pie. Please
help us get the word out about our contest and pass it onto
your reading and writing friends!
- Romance Junkies
|
|
| |
Contest Rules and
Regulations
-
Contest is free and open to all published
and non-published authors, with the exception of all contracted
Carina Press authors. If you are a published author
(print published, epublished or self published), we request
that you submit under an assumed name in order to assure
unbiased voting.
- All work must be original, unpublished work. No previously
'published' works will be considered including, but not limited
to; print publishing, epublishing, and self publishing.
- You can enter more than once, but are limited to only three
entries per person.
- Romance Junkies is a PG-13 site and the entries need to
be PG13. Please ensure that your entry adheres to this policy.
If you have any questions as to what is allowable please contact
Cat Brown at writingcontest
@romancejunkies.com. Your manuscript can be more than
PG13, but the part you send into us has to be PG13 so we can
post it on our website for voting.
- The entry should contain two scenes: the first 2500-3000
words of the book and then one scene or 2500-3000 words of
the authors choice that features a pivotal moment. This
could be the meeting of two characters, a first kiss, a conflict
scene, an action scene, a scene of discovery or anything else
the author considers a pivotal moment in the book.
- Entrant fully understands that the judging is subjective,
and that they may receive critiques with which they do not
agree. Entrant will accept and abide by the decision of the
judges.
- Entrant will hold Romance Junkies, its members, officers
and the judges of this contest harmless and hereby release
them from any liability, which may arise from this contest.
By submitting the entry, entrant specifically waives any right
they may have to bring suit against Romance Junkies, its members,
officers, representatives or judges. Participants understand
there is no implication of a publishing contract with Carina
Press and the participants agree that by entering
contest they will hold Carina Press harmless from any liability
resulting from reviews, critiques, etc.
- Contest entrants are eligible for the reader prizes, including
weekly download prize, awarded to readers for voting in the
contest.
- We have online voting software which allows us to track
anyone who is double voting or trying to use multiple click
software that is floating around the net to increase their
votes. If you cheat you will be dropped from the contest.
- We want the winner of the contest to be based on talent,
not popularity, so you can't post the entry title on websites,
blogs, yahoo groups or forums. You can tell people about the
contest, but you can not reveal the title or name you are
writing under. Anyone found soliciting votes will be immediately
disqualified.
|
|
| |
How do I Enter?
Just fill in the blanks on the form.
Pick a Category for your entry. We have two spots for your email. One will be
made public and that is the Author email box, only enter it in that box if you
wish it to be made public. There is another spot for an email that won't show
up on the site and it will allows us to contact you it's a box called -Non-Public
Email. We have a place for your url if you have one. And ignore the Author bio
box. We needed to put that up for the writing articles. Everything you fill into
the form shows up on the contest page, except non public email. . In the First
Paragraph you can put the first paragraph of your entry. Paste all of your entry
(except first paragraph) into the Entry box. The easiest thing to do is get all
your info down in a word document using New Times Roman 12 and then just copy
and paste the information into the form. If you have any problems please send
us an email at writingcontest@romancejunkies.com
NOTE PLEASE READ:
People have also asked if they
can put shout outs about their entry up on their loops and tell their friends
about it. What we are asking is if you put shout outs about the contest please
dont specify which entry is yours or the name you are writing under. What
we have found in the past is when people go around their loops and tell everyone
to come vote for them, thats what happens - one person (the most popular
person) gets a ton of votes and no one else does. We would love for you to let
people know about the contest and bring more readers to the contest to vote, but
do you really want the winners to be based on who is more popular? So if you could
keep your writing name and entry title anonymous it would help to create a fair
playing field. If you have posted the entry title or name you are writing under
please send us another name and/or title for us to use on your entry. Will
we find out if you cheat? Yes. People send us emails all the time telling us about
someone not following the rules. Its a small community so please adhere to the
rules. Last year we had to disqualify over 30 entries. So many people had
none public emails that we decided to have all the comments from readers sent
to the writingcontest@ and from there we forward them onto each author. On
our part we are doing all we can to try and bring in readers to vote and give
you feedback. But we need your help to spread the word.And we also need YOUR votes.
Yes, you can go and vote each week on entries. If you haven't had a chance to
vote on this weeks entries go check them out! And yes, you can vote on your own
entry when its up ;-)Don't forget to support the contest you entered by
voting every week on entries. By clicking on the enter RJ writing contest
link below and entering your chapter you are agreeing to our rules and regulations.
By entering the contest you are agreeing that the material is from an original
unpublished fictional work of your own creation, and that there are no references
to any place or person that could result in liability
CLICK
HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY
All
content on this website is copyrighted 2003-2011 by Romance
Junkies and any reproduction of any kind is prohibited.
All book excerpts contained in this site are copyrighted
by the author.
|
|
Designed
& Hosted by:
|