Leading publisher Orion, publisher of bestselling authors such as Ian Rankin and Terry Pratchett, and Arts Council funded new writers’ site YouWriteOn.com launch this competition for budding fiction authors with a critique from a senior editor from Orion for the winner's opening chapters as the main prize. The competition is to celebrate our 2010 book awards this year -
View Results - and the publication of
The Legacy by Katherine Webb, last year's YouWriteOn Book of the Year Award Winner in 2009. Orion discovered
The Legacy on YouWriteOn.com, and the story has already become a top seller in bookstores this summer after being chosen as one of the eight books for Channel Four’s TV Book Club Summer Reads this year. Read the first 6 pages from
The Legacy on the link beneath the cover image below and answer the question below to enter the competition. The winner, who will be chosen at random from the correct entrants, receives a critique for their opening chapters from senior Orion editor Sara O'Keefe and 10 runners-up will each receive a copy of
The Legacy.
Closing date for entries is 16th August 2010.The Legacy by Katherine Webb - Novel extract on link beneath cover image below
Click here to view The Legacy on Amazon and click on the 'Look Inside' the Book link just above the cover on the Amazon page to view the extract. The answer to the question below is in the first six pages of the story extract. The Legacy reached number one on the Amazon UK contemporary fiction charts during July 2010The Legacy Competition QuestionEmail the answer to the following question to Edward@youwriteon.com and add 'YouWriteOn Competition' followed by your answer to the question below in the subject header of your email. Add your address in the email (for delivery of
The Legacy should you be one of the runner-ups). All youwriteon.com members are eligible to enter. The winners of the competition will be chosen at random and the overall winner's name will be displayed here during the week of 16th August 2010. The overall winner will receive the Orion editor critique for up to the first 10,000 words of their novel.
Competition Question: What is the name of Erica and Beth Calcott's grandmother in the extract?
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YouWriteOn.com and Orion Competition for New Writers
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