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  • Great Beginnings – Winners of Today’s Best Opening Lines Winter 2013

    piles of manuscripts photoDo you want to know how your opening paragraphs will fare with the Slush Pile Readers at agencies, publishers, distributors & booksellers?

    We are pleased to announce the following authors whose works earned the title of  Best Opening Lines – Great Beginnings Winter 2013:

    These winning authors will receive a paid contest entry into CBR Blue Ribbon Awards Blue Ribbon Writing Competitions of their choice. The certificate will be valid until Jan. 4th, 2016.

    GB – CYGNUS (SciFi & Fantasy):  Jesikah Sundin for Legacy

    GB – JOURNEYS (Narrative Non-Fiction): Scott Kiersztyn for  Life Experience

    GB – CLUE (Suspense/Thiller/Mystery): Kate Vale for Her Daughter’s Father

    GB – PARANORMAL (Mystery):  Kaylin McFarren for Buried Threads

    GB – CHAUCER (Historical Fiction): Emma Rose Millar & Kevin Allen for Five Guns Blazing

    GB – LARAMIE (Western, Pioneer, Civil War): Louise Lenahan Wallace for Children of the Day

    GB – SOMERSET (Mainstream, Contemporary, Blended Genres): Jacinda DeRoy for Finding Hopewood Lane

    GB – M&M (Mystery & Mayhem): Kate Vale for Dream Chaser

    We are now accepting entries for the  Great Beginnings Opening Lines, summer contest until June 30th, 2014. The entry fee is $15 dollars 

    Click on this link for more info: https://www.chantireviews.com/store/#!/~/product/category=5193080&id=29427002