Made of Awesome Contest Entry - Technical Difficulties

Thanks to everyone who has commented on my entry for Shelley Watters Made of Awesome contest so far. I wanted to let you all know that for some reason, the hotel wireless is causing my Google account to have issues. Basically, I can read your entries, but when I try to post (both on Blogger and WordPress), it creates a loop demanding I sign in again and again. Long story short, I'm read-only at the moment.  I'm trying to resolve it, but I apologize in advance if I cannot fix the issue before the end of the critique period.

Made of Awesome Contest Entry - Opening Round

Per Shelley Watters guidelines for her Made of Awesome Contest (LINK), below are the first 250 words of my manuscript.  Good luck to everyone invovled!

Title: Undead Chaos
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Word Count: 82,771 words

Every so often a single event changes your life forever.  For some it’s the appearance of a lost love.  For others, it’s discovering your inner passion. 

For me, it was killing a woman’s husband. 

       

“I’m looking for Marcus Shifter,” the lady on the phone said.  There was a muffled banging noise in the background.

           

“That’s me,” I said, pausing the movie I was watching.

“My name is Carly Banks and I was told you were the magician to call for unusual problems.”

           

“We call ourselves Skilled, Ms. Banks,” I corrected, grabbing a notepad off my coffee table and jotting her name down.

“Whatever.  All that matters is whether or not you can help me.  I need an experienced fixer who doesn’t ask questions.  You aren’t a government magic-guy, are you?”

I pinched the bridge of my nose.  “Technically I am a licensed Combat Warlock for the Delwinn Council, but I do a lot of freelance work.  Odd jobs are my specialty.” 

“How odd?” 

I’d heard that many times.  “People have different definitions of the word, Ms. Banks.  What’s yours?”

“My husband died a month ago and now he’s on my lawn with a shotgun.” 

“That works,” I said.  “Give me the details.”

“Anthony, the cheating bastard, had a heart attack the day I kicked him out.  Three nights ago he showed up on my lawn. He was gone the next morning, so I figured it was a just a bad dream.  Then he returned last night and chased my boyfriend off the property.  Tonight he’s armed.”

Spreading the Word - Made of Awesome Contest

For those interested, Shelley Watters, of the infamous Twit-Pitch, is hosting another contest. This time, contestants will compete with the first 250 words of their completed, fiction manuscript. The winner receives a 10 page critique from Judith Engracia of Liza Dawson and Associates. The festivities begin 28 May and run though the 31st.  All the details can be found on her blog at Shelley Watters "Made of Awesome Contest".*

Good luck to those who enter.





*Great name for a contest, eh?

Thanks

Just a short entry to thank those that provided advice for Shelley Watters’ Twit-Pitch competition.  Winds up the random number generator she used picked my entry as one of the lucky five for her query critique, but I like to think that it also had something to do with the excellent comments from reviewers.  Numerical anomaly or not, the help is greatly appreciated.

Twit-Pitch Competition

Shelley Watters' Twitter Pitch competition is on!  Two days (April 1st and 2nd) for contestants to post and critique each other on their Twit-Pitch Queries, then final entries entered on April 3rd.  Winner receives a full manuscript request from Suzie Townsend of Fine Print Literary Management while runners up get query reviews from the host herself.

My draft entry is below.  Best of luck to everyone involved and let’s have 140 characters of fun!

Twit-Pitch Query:

The Basics:

Title: Undead Chaos

Genre: Urban Fantasy
Word Count: 82,000

The Pitch v1.2 (138 characters): - With new and improve edits thanks to excellent reviewers!

When Marcus beheads a zombie, he inadvertently frames an innocent man, falls in lust, and battles a scheme to unite Humanity by bloodshed.

The Pitch v2.1 (138 characters): - Tweaked once again per comments.

For Marcus, beheading the zombie is easy. The fallout: an innocent framed, lust, and thwarting a scheme to destroy Humanity, not so much.

Contest - Spreading the Word

For those interstested, Shelley Watter's is hosting a Twitter Pitch contest: 140 characters to pitch your MS.  It's only open to unagented writers with a completed MS. Winner gets a full MS request from Suzie Townsend (Fine Print Lit).  The games begin on April 1 and 2 with final submission to her blog on April 3rd.

Sounds like an interseting idea. 

For complete rules, regulations, and other amazing details, here is the LINK!