La-Tessa Montgomery

The River City Romance Writers’s (my local writing chapter) annual Duel on the Delta contest is open and accepting submissions in the following categories:

1. Mystery/Romantic Suspense
2. Historical
3. Contemporary
4. Mainstream/Single Title
5. Young Adult
6. Inspirational
7. Paranormal

New this year, the submission process is 100% electronic.  So polish up your first 15 pages and enter.  For complete contest & submission details click here.

2010 marks the 4th annual Chase The Dream contest hosted by Rachelle Chase and Leigh  Michaels.   This year, the final  judges are Alex Logan of Grand Central Publishing, Deb Werksman of Sourcebooks, Theresa Stevens of Red Sage, Susan Swinwood of Harlequin/Mira/Spice, Esi Sogah of Avon Books, Kelli Martin of Kimani, Christine Witthohn of Book Cents Literary Agency, Laura Bradford of Bradford Literary Agency, and Elizabeth Pomada of Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency.

For those of you unfamiliar with this contest, weekly winners are chosen from the pool of submissions for that week.  At the end, all of the weekly finalist will be review by the panel of final judges and they will choose a winner.

So if you have a killer first 1,000 words, stop by and enter.  I’ve already submitted my entry for the first week of consideration.

I got word this past weekend that my entry finaled in the SOLA’s 4th annual Dixie Kane contest. 

I received  Honorable Mention in the Long Contemporary category. 

I am so excited!! 

 Yay me!!

Now, back to the grindstone.  I have a manuscript to tweak and send out, and another to start.

I got the contest results back this morning from the RSJ Aspiring Authors contest, and…

I didn’t place, but I scored much better than thought I would.  In fact, the feedback was very encouraging.  I’ve recently been battling writer’s block with this story, and the judges’ feedback, along with my CP’s, have helped spark the muse.

So I’m off to increase the word count. 

Ok, I found out this morning that I was not one of the 8 weekly winners of the Chase The Dream Contest. This was the first contest I entered this year & it consisted of the first 1,000 words of my manuscript.  This contest is unique in that winners are chosen weekly, so if you don’t win one week, you can re-enter the next.  There was stift competition and my opening for Love Worth Fighting For (the working title of my manuscript) was not among those chosen.

Not to worry, I’m still hard at working on this story.  I have faith in it

~La-Tessa