Monday, March 14, 2011

Carolina's Agent Signing Mega Giveaway

A friend of the Critique Sisters~and a wonderful lady~Carolina Valdez Miller just signed with agent Vickie Motter! If you don't know who Carolina is yet click on her name to find out. She is one of the sweetest people you could ever hope to know and she's been working long and hard on accomplishing her goals. When someone like her achieves something so great it is cause for celebration! The fact that agents are still looking, still falling in love with books, and still signing clients means the industry is still going strong. That's something we all need to celebrate because you never who could be next, it could be you!

This is one mega party peeps. Carolina wants to give back and pay it forward~because she is fabulous like that~and we wanted to help her. That means some great giveaways for you! Here are the prizes you can enter to win:

*From Heather's Odyssey winner's choice of
 Writers Digest Guide To Query Letters  or The Fire In Fiction by Donald Maass.
*From Carolina's blog there will be 5 different winners:
  #1 A 1st page critique from agent Vickie Motter of the Andrea Hurst Literary Agency
  #2 A Kindle (must follow all blogs in the giveaway to qualify)
  #3 Signed copy of Escaping into the Open: the Art of Writing True by Elizabeth Berg
  #4 Signed Hardback of Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
  #5 Signed Hardback of Passing Strange by Daniel Waters
*From J. Koyanagi (You will need to subscribe or follow her RSS feed)
  One winner will win: WRITING DOWN THE BONES, by Natalie Goldberg or HOW NOT TO WRITE A NOVEL, by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman or GIVE 'EM WHAT THEY WANT: THE RIGHT WAY TO PITCH YOUR NOVEL TO EDITORS AND AGENTS, by Blythe Camenson and Marshall J. Cook
*From Simon Larter One winner will win all three:
Stephen King's ON WRITING, Ray Bradbury's ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING, and Anne Lamott's BIRD BY BIRD
*From LK Gardner-Griffie (In lieu of a follow, you will need to LIKE her Fan page) TBA
ANGELFIRE by Courtney Allison Moulton, ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS by Stephanie Perkins, HEX HALL by Rachel Hawkins, DEMONGLASS by Rachel Hawkins
Winner 1: A signed copy of THE DARK DIVINE Winner 2: A signed copy of RAISED BY WOLVES Winner 3: WRITE GREAT FICTION: PLOT & STRUCTURE
*From Lola Sharp SECRET
*From Elizabeth Davis A $25 Amazon gift card
*From Tracey Neithercott A Hardcover of Across the Universe
*From Kristen Yard
A Signed copy of PERSONAL DEMONS by Lisa Desrochers
*From Christine Fonseca (You will need to subscribe to her blog):
 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids: The Ultimate Guide Or A partial Critique
*From Jonathon Arntson A $15 Barnes and Noble gift card

The rules: You must be a follower to enter (new and old followers are welcome!) and leave a comment on the post you wish to enter to win. See each blog for more information on prizes and rules. The contests close on April 1st and winners will be announced by April 4th. Hurry, click on each of the links and leave a comment! Best of luck!

49 comments:

  1. HUGE congratulations to Carolina! This is wonderful, and I'm so excited we get to help celebrate truly excellent news. Best of luck to you, Carolina, on getting that publishing contract soon. I've heard Vickie Motter is terrific. May this be the beginning of a long and prosperous career for you!

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  2. HOW FANTABULOUS, CAROLINE! CONGRATS!

    What awesome giveaways!

    Thanks, ladies....


    Michael

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  3. So neat that you guys are doing this for Carol! Congrats to her and thanks to you! :)

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  4. Congrats Carol!

    And thanks for the awesome giveaway!

    admiller912 AT gmail DOT com

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  5. Congrats to Carol! Couldn't have happened to a nicer person!

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  6. Yay for Carolina! Exciting way to discover new blogs, too. :)

    Thank you!

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  7. Congrats to Carol! There are so many amazing giveaways and I love finding new blogs to follow. This one is amazing and I look forward to following it!

    Jamie @ Bookerella

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  8. Well, naturally I had to swing by and comment and add another congratulations to the mix. But now I'm here...why is your background image in German? *curious*

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  9. Congratulations Carolina! I am so excited to be invited to your blog party! When Heather told me she connected with you at the conference, I was so happy... I knew you were someone special when she wrote. As a Critique sister, I'm honored to be part of these great giveaways. And to be part of the writing world and meeting so many incredible authors means so much to me. A true family. Thank you Heather for all you do for everyone!

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  10. Congrats, Carolina. That's awesome news.

    aliciacald(at)gmail(dot)com

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  11. Great giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity!

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  12. What a brilliant way to celebrate such good news!

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  13. I'm following you now. I found you from Lola's blog and Carolina's announcement. Whoo Hooo!

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  14. Such a great contest! I'm so touched and honored. Thank you ladies so very much! You've made my day. xoxo

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  15. So many congratulations, Carolina! You so deserve this. And this is an awe-inspiring party! LOL

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  16. What a great way to pay it forward. Hooray to Carolina!

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  17. CONGRATS CAROLINA!!!!!!

    What a great party/giveaway! :D

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  18. Congrats to Carol. That's amazing people are so happy for her to celebrate like this.

    -lauren
    lauren51990 AT aol DOT com

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  19. I was so excited when I saw Carol's post this morning. And it was great seeing all the Carol love out there. :D

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  20. Carol is awesome and I'm so excited for her. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  21. I'm a new follower and am very excited for Carol! She's very deserving! :)

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  22. Congrats to Carolina!! New follower here, thanks for the party!!

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  23. Thanks for putting this on for Carol!

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  24. Congratulations to Carolina and thanks for the contest!

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  25. I'm a new follower! Great of you to join in on the celebration! Do I need to do anything else to enter into your giveaway, or is this comment enough?

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  26. You guys are all awesome to celebrate with Carol like this. So excited for her! And I couldn't agree more about how sweet she is.

    Yay for her!

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  27. I've passed on these blog parties before, but I guess I'm beginning to get more serious about my writing as I'm finding myself following all the blogs on the list and bothering to comment on all of them! And what a great way to discover more writers!
    Donna Leonard

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  28. Another great blog I can follow. This contest is wonfabriffic! Congrats to Carol and thanks!

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  29. Congrats to Carol.
    This is truly an amazing contest

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  30. Congrats to Carolina! She truly is a sweetie. I'm also happy to find your blog and follow you *knows 100th will find you soon, yay*

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  31. Such a great giveaway! Congrats to Carolina!!!

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  32. So happy for Carol and thankful that she led me to your blog. Great giveaway, ladies. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  33. That's so nice of you guys! Wonderful giveaway!

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  34. I'm so happy for Carol, and I'm also excited that this blog party is introducing me to new blogs! Yay!

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  35. I'm a new follower and happy to read and get to know so many new blogs to me.

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  36. Carolina so deserves it! Great giveaway ladies :)

    Hugs,

    Rach

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  37. Congrats to Carol.
    Joining in the fun!

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  38. Lovely! Congrats to Caroline!!!!! :D How I love contests!!!!!

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  39. New follower to the blog.

    Congrats to Caroline :)

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  40. Woohoo!!! Congrats to Carolina! And awesome of all of you to help her celebrate!

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  41. New GFC Follower

    JaidisShaw at yahoo dot com

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  42. Yay for Carol! I love the blog here, and it's really great of you all to help Carol celebrate her great news.

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  43. Great news! What a great friend you guys are!

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  44. Congrats...Carol. Love the giveaways.

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