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Colorado Gold Contest Opens April 1st

March 25, 2015 By: Patricia

All you unpublished novelists…Get Ready, Set, Submit!

The Colorado Gold Contest is about to open, and it’s a wonderful opportunity to get your work in front of impartial judges who will give you a lot of good feedback. And who knows, you might just make the finals.

All of the information about the contest and the submission rules are on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers website contest page.

To whet your appetite, here are the final judges for 2015 for each category:

Action/Thriller: Denise Dietz, Senior Editor, Five Star Publishing
Mainstream: Danielle Burby, Agent, Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency
Mystery/Suspense: Trish Daly, Associate Editor, William Morrow/HarperCollins
Romance: Latoya Smith, Executive Editor, Samhain Publishing
Speculative Fiction: Emily S. Keyes, Agent, Fuse Literary
YA/MG: Melissa Jeglinski, Agent, The Knight Agency

Don’t be shy. Even if you don’t final or win, you’ll get that helpful feedback that might help you win next year.

April 1st. Mark your calendar.

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Comments

  1. Joan Reeves says

    March 25, 2015 at 12:46 pm

    Contest with a great rep. Tweeted!

  2. Patricia Stoltey says

    March 25, 2015 at 9:50 am

    I served as one of the judges for five entries last year and found the quality of submissions good and the story ideas very creative. For beginning writers, it’s a good way to get valuable suggestions for improvement from the judges, most of whom are published authors. One must enter with an open mind and a willingness to learn–there will be a lot of feedback to absorb.

  3. Susan Gourley/Kelley says

    March 25, 2015 at 9:44 am

    What a great lineup. I’m going to pass this on to my writing groups.

  4. Margot Kinberg says

    March 25, 2015 at 8:30 am

    Thanks for passing the word, Pat!! It sounds great!

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. My most recent release, In Defense of Delia (Five Star/Cengage, November 2022), is available in hardcover and will soon be available in ebook and trade paperback. Read More…

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