Win a 3 chapter read from Agent Miriam Kriss

This is for all you romance bloggers out there who are also aspiring authors. You know who you are. There is ONE WEEK LEFT to enter for a chance to get the first three chapters of your manuscript read by Avon author Jenna Petersen’s agent:

Each month in 2009, The Passionate Pen will be hosting another huge contest with another huge prize as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the website. Be sure to read the rules FULLY before you enter:

January Contest:

The Prize: A first three chapter read of a manuscript from this month’s industry interviewee, Miriam Kriss of the Irene Goodman Literary Agency. **Please read the rules BEFORE you enter*

Miriam Kriss joined the Irene Goodman Literary Agency just as she was finishing her master’s degree in Fine Arts at New York University, and quickly became one of the hottest young agents in town. Going from Michelangelo to Nora Roberts was not as great a leap as it might seem, as Miriam had been obsessively reading commercial fiction since she found a copy of Judith McNaught’s classic Whitney, My Love in a rented lakeside cabin when she was thirteen. A few pages in, not only were some gaps in her Catholic school education filled, but she was hooked. She reads fast: one hundred pages an hour, a novel a day, and well, that adds up to a lot of books a year. Miriam likes to say Irene knows the market because she’s been doing this for over twenty-five years and is savvy as all get out, but Miriam herself knows the market because she is the market. And that knowledge has paid off for both her and her clients in a big way.

Sales to major publishers include several six-figure deals for first-time authors, and her client list continues to grow. Her first solo sale, also from a first-time author, hit several bestseller lists in its first week out. She has since had numerous clients appear on the USA Today list, as well as two clients who have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, at one point during the same memorable week. What’s more, now that reading is legitimately “work”, she devours two or three novels and manuscripts a day.

How to Enter: Email an answer the following question about The Passionate Pen website:

In what year did Jenna add a diary to The Passionate Pen? (hint, check out the diary page)

Other Rules:

• One answer per email. Extras will be thrown out.

• You must be able to send your manuscript chapters for review by February 2 (one week after the contest closes and the winner is notified). Don’t make the agent wait. It’s bad form.

• By answering the email question you are agreeing to be invited to the Jenna/Jess newsletter. You don’t have to accept the invite, but you will receive an invitation if you are not already a member.

• Winner will be drawn Monday, January 26 and notified that same day. If a winner does not reply to the email by January 30, another winner will be drawn.

Good luck!

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